Apple is testing Google's Gemini models for a smarter, web-aware Siri, as its internal AI development lags. This evaluation aims to give Siri "world knowledge" capabilities by pulling and summarizing fresh information from the internet, a move targeted for next year.

• Apple plans to integrate a web-search layer for Siri, internally called World Knowledge Answers.
• The testing comes after a US antitrust ruling on Google that preserved their lucrative default-search payments to Apple.
• Google offers a constantly updated web index and models trained for summarization, which are crucial for Siri’s new web fluency.
• The Gemini variant under evaluation could run on Apple-controlled servers, aligning with Apple’s privacy posture.
• Apple is also evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic for other Siri components, indicating a potential "multi-model" strategy.