After ChatGPT debuted in November of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) made a big splash in 2023, with generative AI (the ability of AI to create content) functions and services popping up all over the place. Apple, however, has barely made a peep–the most we’ve heard from Apple so far are reassurances from CEO Tim Cook that Apple is working on …something.
We’re finally seeing evidence that Apple really is working on something–or possibly a few things. The latest comes from a report by BuyAiDomains.com that says that Apple has purchased the “iwork.ai” web domain, which can be confirmed by checking the registration records in the Whois database of domain names. This leads BuyAiDomainscom to conclude that the iWork apps (Keynote, Numbers, and Pages) are “on the brink of a revolutionary transformation.” That could be the case, or Apple may just want to make sure no one else claims it.
However, there is evidence that Apple may have big changes in store for iWork. The iwork.ai report comes after Apple last week released an open-source AI model called MLLM-Guided Image Editing, or MGIE for short. Created in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, the model can edit images based on a user’s written commands. A conference paper explains the Photoshop-like functions the MGIE can perform, and Apple has the code, data, and pre-trained models available for download on GitHub.
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