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Mark German is reporting that Apple is finalizing a deal to pay Google around a billion

dollars a year for a 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is

on track for next spring.

Quoting Bloomberg.

The iPhone maker is banking on Google's help to rebuild

series underlying technology setting the stage for a new slate of features next year. The Google

model's 1.2 trillion parameters, a measure of the AI software's complexity, would dwarf the

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