--- title: Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a... description: Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a major overhaul powered by a custom Google Gemini model (~1.2 trillion parameters) licensed at roughly $1 billion per... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-finally-ships-its-ai-do-over-siri-ai-a-standalone-app-and-a-three-tier-privacy-stack-nkgqtzup8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack | daily.dev og:description: Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a major overhaul powered by a custom Google Gemini model (~1.2 trillion parameters) licensed at roughly $1 billion per... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-finally-ships-its-ai-do-over-siri-ai-a-standalone-app-and-a-three-tier-privacy-stack-nkgqtzup8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NkgqtzUP8.png og:image:alt: Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a major overhaul powered by a custom Google Gemini model (~1.2 trillion parameters) licensed at roughly $1 billion per year. The rebuilt assistant arrives as a standalone app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, supporting personal context search across messages, emails, and photos, multi-step commands, and on-screen awareness. Privacy is handled via a three-tier architecture: on-device for simple tasks, Apple's Private Cloud Compute for moderate requests, and Google Cloud for heavy reasoning — with Apple stating queries are processed statelessly and Google is barred from training on user data. The announcement comes after Apple settled a $250M class action over Siri features promised in 2024 that never shipped. iOS 27 also introduces third-party AI model support (Claude, ChatGPT) as default assistants, significant performance improvements, expanded parental controls, and updates across all Apple platforms. Tim Cook made his final WWDC appearance before handing the CEO role to John Ternus on September 1. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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