Apple Reignites Talks With OpenAI About Generative AI for iOS 18
Apple is once again talking with OpenAI about using OpenAI technology to power artificial intelligence features in iOS 18, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Apple held talks with OpenAI earlier in the year, but nothing had come of the discussion. Apple and OpenAI are now said to be speaking about the terms of a possible agreement and how Apple might utilize OpenAI features.
Along with OpenAI, Apple is still having discussions with Google about licensing Google's Gemini AI. Apple has not come to a final decision, and Gurman suggests that the company could partner with both Google and OpenAI or pick another provider entirely.
Rumors suggest that iOS 18 will have a major focus on AI, with Apple set to introduce AI functionality across the operating system. Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed in February that Apple plans to "break new ground" in AI.
We'll get a first look at the AI features that Apple has planned in just over a month, with iOS 18 set to debut at the Worldwide Developers Conference that kicks off on June 10.
Popular Stories
Apple's iPhone development roadmap runs several years into the future and the company is continually working with suppliers on several successive iPhone models concurrently, which is why we sometimes get rumored feature leaks so far ahead of launch. The iPhone 17 series is no different, and already we have some idea of what to expect from Apple's 2025 smartphone lineup. If you plan to skip...
When introducing the new M4 iPad Pro models, Apple showed a video of a hydraulic press crushing all manner of creative tools, including musical instruments, electronic equipment, arcade games, paint and brushes, computers, cameras, and more, with the aim of demonstrating how the iPad represents all of the tools condensed into a single device. The ad was a play on the popular hydraulic press...
Today we're tracking multiple record low prices across the M1 iPad Air on Amazon, with $150 off every configuration of these now-discontinued tablets. This comes just a few days after Apple announced the new M2 iPad Air, which start at $599. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the...
Benchmarks for the new M4 iPad Pro models have ">popped up on Geekbench, giving us an idea of how much faster Apple's second-generation 3-nanometer chips are compared to the M3, M2, and other prior-generation Apple silicon chips. The 10-core variant of the M4 chip earned an average single-core score of 3,695 and an average multi-core score of 14,550 across 10 benchmarks. When it comes to...
Sonos this week released a major redesign for the Sonos app, introducing customizable home screen meant to deliver a personalized listening experience. The update was announced back in April, but just went live, and unfortunately, it removes a number of features while also introducing several bugs. Multiple complaints on social media have called the app a "step back" with missing features...
Top Rated Comments
- With Apple’s stance on privacy, on a new venture like LLM, they should develop their own model.
- Apple has spent 10 years on quote “master of all AI” - the apple car, and they cannot even develop a good foundation model?
- GPT3 was out how many years ago? The fact that they are still discussing with any company on licensing LLM means the whole leadership lacked foresight on the future of AI. And you cannot expect the same leadership to pull out something amazing. That’s not how it works
- You really need to focus on the use case before selecting a direction. If Apple’s thought are still a chatbot and Q&A machine - gpt - as their ultimate LLM (that runs on the cloud). It means Apple is not leveraging the benefit of their ecosystem: the vast number of Apps and streamlined APIs, partnership with mfi programs, the user data they can use as inputs to the llm for actual personalized assistants, etc.
This just doesn’t look good at all
This new era is a separate field called "generative" AI and it's only just beginning.
* Did Apple miss the boat on personal computing? This existing before the Mac.
* Did Apple miss the boat on MP3 players? They existed long before the iPod.
* Did Apple miss the boat on "smart" cellphones? They existed long before iPhone.
There's no missing the boat when it comes to Apple. The boat just doesn't always set sail when we want it to.