Apple has boosted its budget for developing artificial intelligence, emphasizing creating conversational chatbot features for Siri — allegedly spending millions of dollars daily on research and development.
In May, it was learned that Apple had been recruiting more engineers to work on generative AI projects. While the company didn’t make an official forward-looking statement, CEO Tim Cook said that generative AI is “very interesting.”
But, the story of Apple’s foray into generative AI starts much earlier than May. Four years ago, Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, formed a team to work on large-language models (LLMs), the basis of generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
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