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Apple’s AI Masterstroke is Winning the War Without Fighting It
But will this huge gamble pay off for them?
Midas AI
September 04, 2025
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How do you win a fight without getting into one?
In Apple’s case, it might be making friends with one of the biggest players.
It looks like Apple may be sidestepping the whole AI model arms race and in the process, quietly reshaping the battlefield.
Instead of pouring billions into building its own large language model from scratch, Apple is reportedly in talks to integrate Google’s Gemini into a soupedup version of Siri.
That may sound like a tech footnote, but it’s a strategic nuke in disguise.
Because Apple doesn’t need to “win” AI, it just needs to decide who gets access to the world’s most powerful device distribution pipeline.
If Siri becomes a Gemini powered gateway for AI driven search and assistant tasks, Apple suddenly owns the front door to everyday consumer AI, while outsourcing the compute heavy, margin killing backend.
That's a potentially existential problem for players like OpenAI, Perplexity, and others who’ve been betting on vertical ownership of consumer AI interfaces.
If Apple flips the switch and Siri gets actually useful with third party LLM horsepower, users may never bother opening a chatbot app again. It’s not just distribution, it’s default behaviour.
More subtly, Apple’s move signals something else, the future of AI isn't just about having the strongest model. It’s about stitching together high quality models into seamless, trusted user experiences, often via voice.
In choosing orchestration over model building, Apple is betting UX, not IQ, wins in the end.
So if you're building in consumer AI, the playbook just shifted.
Assume Siri isn’t the punchline anymore. It's a prime distribution surface, especially for use cases involving voice, contextual awareness, and real world actions. Apple is building the assistant layer, it might let others power the brain.
Build accordingly.
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That’s your AI edge for September 4th 2025.
See you tomorrow!
Midas AI