Google Gemini Spark Passes Real-World Test, Bolstering Apple’s Delayed Siri Plans for 2026
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Updated · 9to5Mac · Jun 2
Google Gemini Spark Passes Real-World Test, Bolstering Apple’s Delayed Siri Plans for 2026
3 articles · Updated · 9to5Mac · Jun 2
Google’s Gemini Spark successfully completed a real-world task by finding a user’s wife, pulling 2026 grocery data from Drive, calculating an average and drafting a personalized Gmail message.
The test mattered because Spark is the model Apple plans to use for its new Siri, offering evidence that the Apple Intelligence features shown earlier can work beyond staged demos.
Jay Peters said the system was “floored” him despite imperfections, noting it handled incomplete May data, inferred personal details and even used a private sign-off correctly.
That result contrasts with last year’s criticism that Apple had shown concept videos for Siri features it could not demonstrate live, making Google’s mostly working agentic AI a validation of Apple’s long-promised direction.