Apple is investing millions of dollars a day in artificial intelligence more powerful than ChatGPT

Even though it doesn’t seem Apple invests millions of dollars a day in developing artificial intelligence models able to compete with ChatGPT. So this confirms Information, which sees to it that the Cupertino-based company works on various AI products with the help of different teams. And one of them it may be more powerful than the popular OpenAI chatbot.

According to the aforementioned source, the company currently has a department dedicated to generative artificial intelligence called Fundamental Models. It employs “around” about 16 people.some are ex-Google engineers, and the team is led by John Giannandrea, Apple’s AI director, who joined the company in 2018 to improve Siri.

This will be the team responsible for developing and training what they internally call Ajax GPT, a language model or chatbot similar to ChatGPT, which, according to Information, trained on “more than 200 billion parameters” and it is significantly more advanced than GPT-3.5. At the moment, yes, this chatbot is only used internally, and only a few employees have access to it.

In any case, the so-called Ajax GPT is not the only AI model that Apple is working on. The company also has small teams dedicated to other AI products. Among them one “Multimodal AI that can recognize and create images or videos as well as text”. That is something similar to what we can do with DALL-E.

apple, yes could use its powerful artificial intelligence model to improve some of its services.. For example, the company appears to be working on a chatbot that will “only interact with customers using AppleCare”; perhaps to offer technical support or resolve doubts. Apple is also working on an artificial intelligence model that will automate tasks through Siri.

Apple spent years investing in artificial intelligence

Curiously, Tim Cook himself revealed a few weeks ago that Apple has been investing in artificial intelligence for many years. He also stressed that they will continue to do so “responsibly” in their products to “help improve people’s lives.”

In fact, while it may not seem like it, since Apple has never mentioned AI in its products and services, many of the features available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, or other devices from the company They work thanks to artificial intelligence. One of them is crash detection available on the iPhone 14, which is able to detect if the user has collided with their vehicle and automatically call the emergency services. Also various iPhone automation features, such as suggesting apps based on location.

For now, yes, it is not known when we will be able to see an artificial intelligence model similar to that of ChatGPT, as well as important improvements to Siri, the company’s virtual assistant.