AI APPLICATIONS
More importantly, it would give Apple control over one of the most valuable digital real estate assets: the gateway through which users access information.
“ AI-based search represents the future” Eddy Cue, Apple’ s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, says during recent court testimony, confirming the company has been exploring partnerships with companies including Perplexity.
The impact of Meta’ s AI talent poaching on Apple Apple’ s AI push has hit turbulence, with key researchers jumping ship to Meta’ s new artificial general intelligence( AGI) laboratory.
Four members of Apple’ s Foundation Models team – the group responsible for building the large language models( LLMs) that power AI systems – have decamped to Meta in recent weeks alone.
The defections include some heavy hitters. Ruoming Pang, who built the Foundation Models team from scratch, left in July. Bowen Zhang, who led work on multi-modal AI systems that can process text, images and audio simultaneously, followed soon after.
Meta reportedly offered salaries several times what Apple was paying, along with the promise of working on cutting-edge technology.
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