Apple is developing its own chatbot based on artificial intelligence, which some engineers call “Apple GPT”, Bloomberg reports. According to the source, the company has no clear plans for the release of this technology for the general public.
according to notes Bloomberg, the chatbot uses its own platform for working with large language models (LLM), called” Ajax “. It works on the cloud service of Google and is built using Google JAX – a framework created to accelerate research in the field of machine learning. Sources close to the situation say that Apple has several teams involved in the project, including solving potential problems with data confidentiality.
While other technological giants, including Meta, Microsoft and Google, quickly produce their products based on generative AI for business and ordinary users, Apple is noticeably lagging behind. Although Apple forbade her employees to use ChatGPT, Bloomberg reports that engineers are actively using the AJAX chat boot inside the company. Ajax was created to “unify the development of machine learning”, says Bloomberg.
Apple is quite modest in the field of generative AI, although the company has long been introducing AI in its software. Its most famous AI system is Siri, a voice assistant who became a pioneer in this area among technological companies. But critics have long claimed that Siri still has great potential to improve. To support his efforts, Apple hired John Giannandrea in 2018, who previously headed the AI and Search in Google. He is now responsible for Siri and machine learning teams in Apple. According to Bloomberg, Giannandrea and Apple Senior Vice President Craig Federigi leads the Apple initiative in the field of AI.
In a recent interview, Good Morning America Tim Cook said that AI technologies are something that Apple is “carefully looking.” Cook also expressed his concern about AI products during the company’s telephone conference in May in May, noting that there are a “series of problems that need to be solved.” Other companies began to cooperate on the production of various LLM for startups and researchers. Meta announced on Tuesday that her LLM Llama 2 will be available on the Microsoft Azure platform. Microsoft also uses the Openai GPT model on its search product Bing.
Although Apple’s plans in the field of AI are still unclear, sources report that Apple plans to make “a significant announcement related to AI” over the next year.