De-Google Apple soon a thing?

Bette · January 13, 2026, 6:28pm

Hi

Elon is right. Sorry!

tomalmy · January 13, 2026, 6:40pm

Google’s technology will be running solely on-device or in Apple’s cloud, maintaining Apple’s privacy. I just consider Elon’s comment to be sour grapes for Apple not using Grok.

SpivR · January 13, 2026, 6:49pm

I know we are not supposed to be political, but Elon Musk, given what he did at the start of 2025, embodied everything wrong with “unreasonable concentration of power”, he is the last person to try and make this point.

geoffaire · January 13, 2026, 7:36pm

I don’t agree. If this is as private as it’s supposed to be, money and prestige aside, Google gets nothing else out of it.

DrJJWMac · January 14, 2026, 3:03am

Perhaps Musk should have asked Grok to review his grammar before posting.

Oh! Maybe he did?

Perhaps try Siri/GoogleAI instead.

I’ll be curious next year whether this predication on a “seems like” opinion was truly prescient or simply somewhat confused.

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JJW

Wseries · January 14, 2026, 5:01am

Elon is a moron. If he’s having a whinge, it must be a good thing.

MacinTosher · January 14, 2026, 5:46am

Google can get money out of it. They paid billions to Apple for search defaults, maybe now apple will pay them billions for AI tech.

geoffaire · January 14, 2026, 8:09am

I said they’d get paid.

jcarucci · January 14, 2026, 10:49pm

This from the guy who has 50 companies and just moves assets around as it pleases him!

nationalinterest · January 15, 2026, 2:41pm

I’m sure anyone who wants to use Grok on iOS will still be able to do so. The bigger problem for Elon is - unless you’re into ‘nudification’ - why would you?

rkaplan · January 15, 2026, 5:29pm

A billion dollars a year doesn’t count?

geoffaire · January 15, 2026, 6:09pm

I literally said Money aside in the bit you quoted.

Erlend · January 15, 2026, 7:07pm

I absolutely do think Google’s dominance is a big problem — and this deal makes it worse.

But Elon’s comments here are 100% self-serving, and I don’t believe he has much care for the health of the web and a competitive environment in tech (for anyone but himself).

WayneG · January 15, 2026, 10:17pm

These tools are for consumers. Apple will be using some of Google’s models as a basis for the apps they will build on top of some variation of Gemini’s models (nano?) that will run on apple devices and Apple PCC. AFAIK Samsung is using regular Gemini that runs on device and on Google cloud.

Just about everyone else that is working on AI today uses the transformer technology developed by Google in 2007.

OpenAI. The GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series, including the models powering ChatGPT and GPT-4, are all transformer-based.

Google DeepMind BERT, PaLM, and the current Gemini family of models
use the transformer architecture.

Anthropic. Their Claude models (Claude 3, Claude 4, etc.) are built on transformer foundations.

Meta AI. The LLaMA series of open-source models utilize the transformer architecture.

Microsoft Products, like GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Copilot rely on transformer-based models developed in partnership with OpenAI.

Cohere. This startup, co-founded by one of the original transformer paper’s authors, builds its language systems using transformer technology.

Even Grok 3 and Grok 4 are built on a transformer-based architecture