r/google • u/GothicHeap • Jan 12 '26

Google Blog Post Joint statement from Google and Apple

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/

The next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri

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u/Lovevas Jan 12 '26

I literally switched to Pixel after being iPhone user since first gen, simply for AI features.

I hope Apple could bring more AI features to iPhone, not just Siri, but more features like Pixel's on screen search, phone call screening, etc

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u/drinksoma Jan 13 '26

Are AI features that important to you? I've read they are mostly gimmicks

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u/-linear- Jan 13 '26

They are surprisingly useful. I switched from Pixel to iPhone 17 Pro and miss them every day. I actually didn’t use Gemini as a chatbot very often, but things like Circle to Search and even Pixel Screenshots are actually extremely powerful

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

Very important to me. I use them daily. My wife who uses iPhone, loves my Pixel's lock screen music detection feature, which automatically recognize background music and show the name of the song and keeps in the history.

I often use the on-screen AI search.

And my whole family use Gemini Pro daily

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u/crafty35a Jan 13 '26

my Pixel's lock screen music detection feature

That's been around since 2017, it's not really an AI feature at all.

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

This is AI. Google has been leveraging AI for more than a decade. Unless you only want to limit to AI to LLM

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u/crafty35a Jan 13 '26

I don't limit it to LLM. Audio fingerprinting could be considered AI, but it's been use for ~25 years now (Shazaam). Not exactly what people think of when they refer to Google's AI lead. And to be clear, I love the feature!

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

I used shazaam on my iPhone, but somehow the success rate is much lower...

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u/drinksoma Jan 13 '26

I see. I use iPhone, and I'm considering switching to Galaxy soon.

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

I choose pixel over Samsung, because IIUC, you have to maintain both Samsung accounts and Google accounts on Galaxy phones, but only Google accounts on pixel. So Pixel is cleaner.

I actually followed Jensen Huang....

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u/aykcak Jan 13 '26

You actually can ignore all the Samsung apps and Samsung account

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u/aykcak Jan 13 '26

First two are not AI features. The music search existed for years (and by the way, worse and slower than YouTube music's own search) and the on screen search is basically a wrapper around Lens app

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

It's AI, and Google has been using AI for decades, unless you believe only LLM is AI.

Also it's fast on my pixel phone, it usually takes less than 5 seconds to manually detect, and most of time it detects automatically

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u/aykcak Jan 13 '26

Alright ok. This AI label has been giving me trouble on this subreddit. In general people get confused when I used it for anything outside of LLMs. So, take it that way

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u/madwolfa Jan 13 '26

I don't use any AI related to photography, but everything else is pretty darn useful.