New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Reports suggest Apple is in talks to bring Google's Gemini models into the next generation of Siri and Apple Intelligence, with a Gemini-powered Siri upgrade that would place two longtime rivals in a multi-year partnership and underline a simple reality that Apple wants Siri to catch up faster than its usual in-house pace.

That is a meaningful shift for a company built on full-stack control, because if this plan moves forward, Apple would still own the interface and the product choices, yet it would lean on outside model support to sharpen what Siri can do, while insisting that privacy rules and data handling remain on Apple's terms.

The reported plan is that Gemini would support parts of Siri's next step forward, ...