In return for Google getting a discount on how much they pay Apple to be the default search engine in Safari, Apple has the right to distill Google's Gemini server models and to create their own models that fit on-device.

> Apple is cutting down Google Gemini's massive models into smaller and more secure parts through distillation, to create elements that are more suited to on-device Apple Intelligence processing.

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