New Delhi, March 26 -- Apple had announced its partnership with Google to use Gemini to power the latest version of Siri, along with other Apple Intelligence features, but the finer details of that arrangement had remained under wraps. Now, as per a new report by The Information, under the arrangement, Apple gets full access to the Gemini model in its own data centre, which gives the iPhone maker the right to produce smaller models for specific tasks that are small enough to run directly on Apple devices.

The report also goes on to note that Apple can perform distillation on the Gemini model, which is a technique by which an LLM can transfer its knowledge onto a smaller model. In this process, Apple's model would act as a student model t...