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Google & Apple CEOs offer seemingly contradictory statements regarding AI partnership

Apple will be using Google technologies to level up Apple Foundation Models, but the details of exactly how are still vague. While speculation is still wild, a true answer is emerging from the noise.

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Apple Intelligence will get a boost after training with Google Gemini

There is one concrete fact that we have about the Apple and Google partnership on artificial intelligence development, and it is that we’re not going to be told more publicly. Apple CEO Tim Cook did say that Apple won’t change its privacy stance while working with Google and indicated that Apple Intelligence and Siri will work on-device and via Private Cloud Compute (PCC).

That statement seems cut and dry on its own, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai and CBO Philipp Schindler shared seemingly contradictory statements during the Google earnings call. They both used the phrase “preferred cloud provider” when discussing Google’s relationship with Apple.

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