It’s RIP Apple Intelligence? It’s over? But never say no. The rumors hovering, that Apple wants to say goodbye to the AI tool it is developing and wants to jump into the arms of other companies, which is not very acceptable to Apple, but unfortunately, it seems that this is the reality. What wouldn’t you do for a tastier snack?
Apple asks its rivals to create models that could run on its cloud infrastructure and power Siri. Across town, Meta courts top AI talent with $100 million paydays. Firstly appeared on PcMag.
The company has reportedly held talks with OpenAI and Anthropic about using their AI models to power the updated version of Siri, Bloomberg reports.
The effort is in the “early stages,” said Mark Gurman on Bloomberg. For now, Apple has asked both companies to create versions of their models that would work on Apple’s cloud infrastructure as a test. However, if either option is better than Apple’s existing Foundation Models.
Apple Intelligence already works with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google Gemini might be next. But ChatGPT is an add-on; Apple Intelligence powers the platform.
In March, CEO Tim Cook reassigned the project to Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell. He promptly instructed the team to explore using third-party models for the new Siri, according to Bloomberg. They looked at Anthropic’s Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Meanwhile, Apple internally discussed purchasing Perplexity for its AI tech and talent.
Meta seems to be in a similar mode of AI desperation, offering $100 million pay packages to poach top talent from other companies, The Wall Street Journal reports.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a Superintelligence lab, and convinced four top researchers to leave OpenAI for it, Wired reports. OpenAI now says it’s “recalibrating” compensation, and is shutting down for a week to give employees a break from the 80-hour workweeks.
Zuckeberg tried to recruit OpenAI co-founder John Schulman and Bill Peebles, the co-creator of OpenAI’s Sora video generator, but neither accepted the offer. personally reaching out to “hundreds of researchers, scientists, infrastructure engineers, product stars, and entrepreneurs,” according to the Journal. Some people claimed they didn’t believe it was actually him.
