Elon Musk hit out at Apple and Google on Monday over their newly announced artificial intelligence (AI) partnership, hours after the tech companies revealed their multi-year deal to integrate Gemini AI into Siri and other Apple Intelligence features.

"This seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google, given that [they] also have Android and Chrome," Musk wrote in a post on X. He serves as CEO of xAI, the company behind Grok, a direct competitor to Google's Gemini AI.


Apple has chosen Google’s Gemini models and cloud infrastructure to power its future foundation models. Under this partnership, Gemini will power Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalised Siri, expected to launch this year as part of iOS 26.4, likely in March or April.

"After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google's AI technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users," the companies said in a joint statement.

Apple said it will maintain its "industry-leading privacy standards" by running Apple Intelligence on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute.

While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Bloomberg had earlier reported that Apple was planning to pay about $1 billion per year to utilise Google's AI technology. This also comes after Apple reportedly tested technology from competitors, including OpenAI and Anthropic.

This is not Musk's first legal spat with Apple. Last August, xAI filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, alleging that the companies were trying to manipulate competition in the AI chatbot market and disadvantage Grok. Per Musk's lawsuit, Apple systematically favoured ChatGPT in App Store rankings, while putting other chatbots behind.

The Apple-Google deal represents a setback for OpenAI, which partnered with Apple in 2024 to integrate ChatGPT into Siri. Neither Apple nor Google have publicly responded to Musk's comments.