Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is well known for having numerous sources inside of Apple, and in a new interview he shared some interesting comments about the company’s reliance on Anthropic.
New interview highlights Apple’s dependence on Anthropic for product development
Apple recently announced an AI partnership with Google. But reporting indicates the company initially pursued deals with other companies, including Anthropic.
Based on new comments from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it’s easy to see why.
Gurman, speaking on TBPN, said the following:
Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple is doing internally in terms of product development, a lot of their internal tools…They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally.
Bloomberg's @markgurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic.
"Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and… pic.twitter.com/NpW0Pyj03J — TBPN (@tbpn) January 29, 2026
In the full clip, Gurman mentions how Apple initially pursued an AI deal with Anthropic before the Google partnership came together.
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