Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company’s AI service, Gemini, could soon become part of Apple’s iPhone. Pichai said he is hopeful that Gemini will be added as a built-in option on Apple’s smartphone this year. Apple’s AI system, Apple Intelligence, uses its own models for most AI tasks available on the company’s phones, tablets and computers. However, the company has partnered with ChatGPT from OpenAI for integration with its Siri voice assistant and Writing Tools, a feature for creating and editing text. Pichai said he hopes that Gemini, a ChatGPT rival, will be added as an additional AI option on Apple products. He said he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook on the topic last year and hopes to have a deal hammered out by mid-2025. Google is in the middle of its largest AI push yet. The company has integrated AI across its product lines, with 15 of its products each having more than half a billion users now using Gemini models. AI Overviews in search have reached 1.5 billion monthly users. “We continue to see that usage growth is increasing as people learn that search is more useful for more of their queries,” Pichai said adding that AI Mode queries tend to be twice as long as those in traditional search.