SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 (Reuters) - On stage on Monday

CEO Tim Cook's Apple ( AAPL ) announced a splashy deal with

OpenAI to include its powerful artificial intelligence model as

a part of its voice assistant, Siri.

But in the fine print of a technical document Apple ( AAPL )

published after the event, the company makes clear that

Alphabet's Google has emerged as another winner in the

Cupertino, California, company's quest to catch up in AI.

To build Apple's ( AAPL ) foundation AI models, the company's

engineers used its own framework software with a range of

hardware, specifically its own on-premise graphics processing

units (GPUs) and chips available only on Google's cloud called

tensor processing units (TPUs).

Google has been building TPUs for roughly 10 years, and has

publicly discussed two flavors of its fifth-generation chips

that can be used for AI training; the performance version of the

fifth generation offers performance competitive with Nvidia

H100 AI chips, Google said.

Google announced at its annual developer conference that a

sixth generation will launch this year.

The processors are designed specifically to run AI

applications and train models, and Google has built cloud

computing hardware and software platform around them.

Apple ( AAPL ) and Google did not immediately return requests for

comment.

Apple ( AAPL ) did not discuss the extent to which it relied on

Google's chips and software compared with hardware from Nvidia ( NVDA )

or other AI vendors.

But using Google's chips typically requires a client to

purchase access to them through its cloud division, much in the

same way customers buy computing time from Amazon.com's ( AMZN )

AWS or Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Azure.