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Apple has officially partnered with Google to use Gemini’s cloud technology as the foundation for next-generation Apple Foundation Models, powering Siri — a development TheAIGRID argues marks a pivotal setback for OpenAI. The multi-year collaboration means Google-powered AI will be the default assistant across both Android and iOS, covering roughly 98% of the global smartphone market. Apple’s public statement that Google’s technology “provides the most capable foundation” is characterized as a significant PR defeat for Sam Altman’s organization, particularly amid existing concerns about OpenAI’s reasoning model performance.
The video dissects the financial stakes: Apple was reportedly paying Google upward of $1 billion per year for Gemini access — revenue that bypasses OpenAI entirely. This loss compounds OpenAI’s profitability challenge given its heavy compute and talent expenditure without Google’s diversified ad and cloud revenue base or Apple’s services income. The analysis also covers the reported breakdown in Apple’s relationship with OpenAI, linked to OpenAI’s AI hardware project with former Apple designer Jony Ive, which Apple reportedly viewed as competitive aggression against the iPhone.
Elon Musk’s public comments characterizing Google’s simultaneous presence across Android, Chrome, and now iOS AI as an “unreasonable concentration of power” are examined alongside broader questions about default AI distribution becoming the defining competitive moat of the current era.
📺 Source: TheAIGRID · Published January 20, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
