Unverified claim that Apple will deeply integrate Gemini into iOS at WWDC 2026.

Apple published paper 'The Illusion of Thinking' arguing LLMs lack genuine reasoning

Launched DeepSeek-R1 large language model, causing $1 trillion market valuation shift

DeepSeek valuation jumps from $20B to $45B in first VC round led by China state fund.

Released V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters

Released DeepSeek-V4 with 1M-token context at 10% KV cache cost

Released and open-sourced the DFNDR-12M multimodal training dataset on Hugging Face.

Initiates first external fundraising round, targeting at least $300M at a $10B+ valuation to set a benchmark for employee stock options.

John Ternus assumes leadership of Apple's AI and hardware engineering efforts, marking a transition from the Cook era.

Apple promotes Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer, centralizing leadership over silicon design and hardware engineering.