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Apple weighs custom Gemini AI for Siri, exploring generative AI integration across devices and servers with strict privacy controls, potential 2026 rollout, and market implications for semiconductors, services monetisation, data-centre infrastructure, regulatory landscapes, and the evolving multimodal assistant race.
ELD Asset Management highlights Apple’s active evaluation of Google’s Gemini technology for the next generation of Siri as a pivotal development on 09 Sep 2025. The independent analysis points to Apple’s consideration of a custom model implementation, run on its own infrastructure, designed to strengthen privacy while delivering multimodal capability across text, images and code. The investment relevance lies in whether this move accelerates Siri’s usefulness, broadens developer engagement and underpins new services revenues within the current product cycle.
Reports indicate Apple aims to deliver a more sophisticated Siri in 2026, though final commitments remain pending. The discussions with Google focus on building a Gemini variant that balances Apple’s emphasis on privacy with the need for advanced reasoning. Jason Harrison, Senior Vice President at ELD Asset Management, observes that “a privacy-governed custom Gemini integrated at platform scale reshapes Siri’s role in the ecosystem, opening a faster route to contextual assistance than an internal build alone would allow.”
Key considerations include model performance, cost efficiency and governance standards. ELD Asset Management’s assessment highlights the trade-offs between inference quality, cost per request and the scale of infrastructure required. Harrison adds that “investors should value exposures with optionality, particularly across suppliers of high-bandwidth memory, power and cooling, and inference software, where demand expands regardless of which platform eventually leads.” This suggests a diversified approach as industry competitive dynamics evolve.
Market observers are also focused on Apple’s search economics. Apple’s agreement with Google for default search placement is widely estimated to generate around $19.08 billion per year. Any move that strengthens the relationship through technical collaboration provides commercial logic in addition to functionality gains. The central question is whether a stronger Siri can deepen user engagement and support monetisation across services such as maps, music and payments.
Execution risk persists as Apple pursues parallel development paths. Its internal foundation models continue to evolve alongside external evaluations, leaving investors to monitor milestones such as reliability at scale, latency improvements and breadth of developer tools released during the current fiscal year. Harrison comments that “progress has the highest value when it reduces friction in everyday use and integrates seamlessly into consumer routines,” a perspective shaping current portfolio positioning.
Client positioning for the current fiscal period therefore emphasises disciplined exposure to suppliers leveraged to memory, networking, orchestration software and power upgrades, along with selective holdings in platforms likely to convert multimodal capability into everyday utility, while maintaining clear risk controls in case model costs compress faster than revenue expansion.
ELD Asset Management concludes that Apple’s willingness to consider Google’s Gemini reflects a broader reshaping of competitive boundaries in the technology sector. Strategic alliances once viewed as unlikely now emerge as practical responses to engineering challenges and accelerated timelines. For investors, this signifies an era in which partnerships may be as critical as proprietary development, and opportunities are most apparent where infrastructure and enabling technologies underpin the next generation of consumer utility.
About ELD Asset Management
Founded in 2017, ELD Asset Management Pte. Ltd. provides strategic investment advice supported by comprehensive market research and global economic insight. The firm continuously monitors international conditions to help clients anticipate opportunities and align portfolios with clearly defined risk parameters. Further insights and commentary: https://www.eldglobal.com/news/
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