Apple’s Siri voice assistant could shift to Google's Gemini AI model as early as this coming Monday, with the system running on Nvidia’s Blackwell B200 graphics processing units — chips designed for high-demand AI inference workloads.
The Blackwell B200, Nvidia’s latest data center GPU architecture, delivers substantially higher throughput for large language model (LLM) tasks compared to its predecessors, making it a favored choice for companies building Real-Time AI assistants.
Siri’s AI Backend Overhaul
Apple Has faced persistent criticism that Siri lags behind competitors such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s own Gemini assistant in conversational capability.
Tapping Gemini as Siri’s underlying engine would mark a significant shift in how Apple handles on-device and cloud AI processing — effectively outsourcing core intelligence to a rival’s model.
Still, the move would not be without precedent in the industry. Apple already licenses Google’s search engine as the default on Safari, a deal that U.S. Department of Justice antitrust proceedings have valued at roughly $18 billion to $20 billion annually.
Nvidia’s Blackwell in the Picture
Nvidia’s Blackwell B200 GPU entered production in late 2024 and quickly became the preferred hardware for hyperscale AI deployments.
The chip delivers up to 20 petaflops of FP4 AI performance per unit, according to Nvidia's official product specifications, far exceeding the output of the prior Hopper generation.
Major cloud providers including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services have all committed to Blackwell-based server clusters to handle surging demand for AI inference — the process by which a trained model generates responses to user queries in real time.
Running Siri’s Gemini integration on B200 hardware would place Apple’s assistant on the same infrastructure tier as standalone enterprise AI products.
Timing and What Remains Unknown
The Monday timeline referenced by PhoneArena suggests an announcement or activation could coincide with a scheduled Apple event or software update, though Apple has not confirmed any such deployment publicly.
Apple did announce a partnership with OpenAI at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2024, integrating ChatGPT into Siri for certain queries — suggesting the company sees third-party AI integration as a workable model.
Whether a Gemini deal would replace, supplement, or run parallel to the existing OpenAI arrangement remains unclear.
Google’s Gemini models power the company’s own assistant products across Android and Workspace, and Alphabet's 2024 annual report highlighted Gemini as central to its cloud revenue growth strategy.
Apple’s services revenue reached $96.2 billion in fiscal year 2024, according to Apple's official earnings release, underlining how heavily the company depends on software and AI-adjacent income streams to offset slowing hardware sales.
Nvidia’s market capitalization briefly surpassed $3.4 trillion in early 2025, driven largely by sustained enterprise demand for its AI chips, per Reuters market reporting.
