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Why Apple Just Gave Up on AI

2025-11-11 Science & Technology
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Apple Partners with Google Gemini to Fix Failing Siri and Apple Intelligence

Discover why Apple publicly partnered with Google's Gemini to salvage its struggling AI strategy and what this unprecedented $1 billion licensing deal means for the future of creating proprietary foundational AI.

Short Summary

  • High-profile Apple AI promotion resulted in canceled features, internal conflict, and the admission of failure via external partnership.
  • Consumer apathy remains high; data shows fewer users upgrade specifically for AI features, questioning the massive R&D spending across the industry.
  • Apple will license a custom, private-cloud version of Gemini to power Siri functions, suggesting a shift toward industry commoditization of LLMs.

This discussion explores the internal dysfunction that led Apple to leverage Google's infrastructure after its highly promoted Apple Intelligence rollout failed to materialize. We examine the consumer sentiment contradicting the AI arms race and analyze whether large companies should focus on building applications rather than competing at the foundational model layer.

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Apple has been struggling to fix Siri since it's inception in 2011, but today they find themselves even further behind. The solution? Apple intelligence but that didn't pan out as expected. The Californian company has now resorted to using Google's Gemini to solve their AI woes. In this episode we explore what this means for Apple, the wider AI industry and consumers. Watch or listen to ColdFusion on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YEwCKoRz8fEDqheXB6UJ1 ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@coldfusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide

Top Comments (10)

@ccs251094 2025-11-11

It would be nice if they could just fix autocorrect

5.1k 142 replies
@DylanODonnell 2025-11-11

"Hey Siri install Chat-GPT". "Playing, The Beatles."

5.0k 47 replies
@StuartHetzler 2025-11-11

"your fridge has AI now" "wHy DoNt CoSuMeRs WaNt AI?"

2.7k 36 replies
@Immortal.. 2025-11-13

Not having AI in a product is a selling point for me

1.8k 30 replies
@rayray117 2025-11-11

Siri has only been useful to set timers and that’s it.

1.2k 32 replies
@rb86222 2025-11-11

Hey Siri: “Im shitfaced and need help standing up” Siri: “Calling your boss”

1.2k 13 replies
@Gooman130 2025-11-12

I don't want an AI assistant in my phone, I want to be able to afford my housing and food.

677 12 replies
@reporeport 2025-11-12

Apple not doing AI might turn out to be the best turn out they've ever had

559 9 replies
@CyclesMcHurtz 2025-11-13

AI is not helping prices go down or products better, it is helping corporations exploit people.

232 9 replies
@brushstroke3733 2025-11-13

2:15 When I think about buying a new phone, the most important features are that it plugs into a wall and doesn't spy on me. I'm a simple luddite. 🤷‍♂️

180 8 replies

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