Apple's Google Gemini deal is the most disappointing thing to come out of Apple since the Newton

Apple will not be among the tech leaders in this golden age of AI. That much is now clear based on its stunning deal with Google to use Gemini Models as the basis for its Foundation Models and what will likely form the fundamental personalization and smarts of the next major Siri update.

I'm not arguing the efficacy of this choice. Google and Gemini are inarguably the best ones for Apple if it's committed to letting a third party jump-start its model efforts. After all, though competitors, Apple and Google are also partners, with Google paying Apple a repoprted $20 billion a year for search integration on Safari.

Further, if Apple were deciding between OpenAI and Google, the latter is clearly a winner from a data standpoint. Gemini may not yet be the AI leader, but it's raced to a nearly neck-and-neck position ...