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Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence with a new hybrid architecture developed with Google that pairs its foundation models with Gemini

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Apple is swapping out its prior Apple Intelligence setup for a hybrid system that routes work between fully on-device models and cloud versions built on Gemini foundations, all announced at this year's WWDC.

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Marques Brownlee@MKBHD#1416inAI

Google/Apple collab on "the next generation of Apple Intelligence" confirmed

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Workflow Shift

Routing logic keeps heavy tasks off your phone

A new orchestrator checks the query, active app, and privacy rules before deciding whether to run everything locally or tap the cloud, letting lighter devices still access stronger reasoning without constant server calls.

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Custom Gemini variants stay Apple-only

The cloud models use Gemini technology plus Apple's own training data and reinforcement steps, and they differ from anything Google offers its own users, with Nvidia GPUs handling the remote side under extended Private Cloud Compute rules.

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Positive users praise Apple's Google partnership for blending on-device privacy with Gemini power in Apple Intelligence, while negative users criticize resulting dependency on others' models or launch personal attacks.

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

Very interesting

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

Parallel Track MoE Apple released it last year in July

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

"AFM Cloud Pro seems to be based on Gemini foundation and data, but Apple did their own pre-training, post-training, RL, etc"

Google shared its training data and training recipes DAYUM

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Gilles675@itsGilles675

@MKBHD

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@MKBHD Entirely new Siri, I heard that so many times over the years. 😪

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K.@sa11oum

@GarrisonMoratto @markgurman Yes it can. You just don’t get the customizable voices and enhanced dictation, that’s it. It’s a RAM limitation.

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@MKBHD But is Apple gonna say it out aloud is what everybody want to know 😬

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@MKBHD I feel like Gemini is the best for apple to collaborate with

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Kylie Robison@kyliebytes

perfect reporting, 5 grafs i can skim to quickly understand what the hell is going on https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/

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Mr Boat and Cars.@luciferde1st

@CNBC Apple, Google, AND Nvidia in one AI project? That’s like Marvel assembling the Avengers after years of them shading each other 😂

So Apple’s basically saying “we’ll bring the iPhone data, you bring the chips and the actual AI brains”.

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Everlier@Everlier

@MKBHD We had Ge Mini for a long time, let's admit it's time for Ge Pro Max

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Mr Boat and Cars.@luciferde1st

@CNBC If this works, Siri’s finally gonna stop pretending she heard “call mom” when I said “play music”.

You think this actually ships something better, or just 3 tech giants splitting the bill to look ahead of OpenAI?

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byrdo@byrdo_metalhead

@MKBHD Wild to see this confirmed. Apple spent years positioning itself as the ultimate privacy-first ecosystem, and now they're routing cloud AI requests straight through Google's Gemini models. The tech debt must have been insane behind the scenes for them to make this deal.

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Garrison Moratto@GarrisonMoratto

@markgurman I bought an iPhone 16 Pro specifically to use the 2024 AI features, which Apple then never delivered, and now two years later, my 16 pro can’t run the new Siri…🤯

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Aarav Shirpurkar@aaravshirpurkar

@MKBHD steve jobs would have hated this

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@MKBHD Thank you, Jesus 🤠 I mean Craig F. Finally, Siri may figure out how to reply better than a 6-year-old.

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Palis👹@PalisFLD

@MKBHD THIS WILL BE LITERALLY HUGE

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finn@isthatclaudio

@MKBHD "deep collaboration"

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Kracked Devs@KrackedDevs

@markgurman Apple will always spin up something to make it sound like its their own unique thing.

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