Apple Ditches Apple Silicon Pledge, Routes AI Queries to Google Cloud
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Apple routes AI queries to Google Cloud, breaking 2024 Apple silicon pledge. Distilled Gemini runs locally; heavier queries use Nvidia tech in Google Cloud. Apple is abandoning its 2024 promise to keep AI queries on Apple silicon, routing heavier requests to Google Cloud instead. According to, a distilled Gemini model runs locally on iwhile offloaded queries use Nvidia confidential-compute tech in Google Cloud.