Apple is planning to open Siri up to multiple AI chatbots at once—Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, ChatGPT, and potentially others—effectively ending the exclusive arrangement with OpenAI that has been in place since WWDC 2024. According to Bloomberg, the move is part of a broader rethink of how Siri integrates with third-party AI, giving users the freedom to pick whichever chatbot they want rather than being locked to one. For a company that has spent two years stumbling through Siri delays and internal upheaval trying to catch up on AI, it’s also an admission that no single partner is going to solve this—so Apple might as well let them all in.According to Bloomberg, an upcoming feature called “Extensions” in iOS 27 will let users connect Siri to whichever chatbot they prefer—Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or others available on the App Store. Users would download the chatbot’s app, enable it in the Apple Intelligence and Siri section of Settings, and route Siri queries to it. The feature is expected across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, with Apple set to announce all three at WWDC on June 8.
The OpenAI deal was big enough to make Musk threaten Faraday cages for iPhone-carrying Tesla visitors
Apple and OpenAI announced their partnership at WWDC in June 2024. It triggered an immediate meltdown from Musk, who called the integration “an unacceptable security violation” and said he would ban Apple devices from Tesla and SpaceX. He even suggested visitors carrying iPhones would need to leave them in Faraday cages at the door. The deal itself reportedly involved no money changing hands—OpenAI got a massive new user base, Apple got a workable chatbot without building one from scratch.That arrangement now looks like a placeholder. Apple has already moved considerably beyond it: in January 2026, it announced a multi-year deal with Google to use Gemini as the backbone of its next generation of Foundation Models, reportedly paying around $1 billion a year for access. A subsequent report from The Information added that Apple has the right to distil Gemini into smaller, on-device models—giving it far more control over the technology than initially understood.
Every chatbot subscription sold through Siri’s new Extensions feature could quietly earn Apple a commission
There’s a financial logic to this shift too. To use a chatbot through Siri, users would likely need to subscribe through the App Store, where Apple takes up to 30% on every sale. Opening the platform to all comers is, among other things, a revenue play.Google’s deeper integration is expected to persist regardless of a user’s chatbot preference. Even if someone picks Claude as their default, Gemini will reportedly continue handling specific tasks within Apple Intelligence in the background.
