Days after the Wall Road Journal reported that Apple and Meta have been in talks to combine the latter’s AI fashions, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned that the iPhone maker was not planning any such transfer.
Apple briefly held talks with Meta about the potential for a partnership method again in March, in keeping with Bloomberg. This was the time when Apple was speaking to a number of corporations to discover integration of their fashions with their units.
Nonetheless, the corporate shelved the thought of placing Meta’s AI fashions on iPhones over privateness considerations, Bloomberg mentioned. The report additionally famous that partnering with the social networking firm additionally gained’t do lots of good to Apple’s picture, provided that the Cupertino-based firm has criticized Meta’s privateness practices repeatedly.
Earlier this month, Apple launched its personal suite of AI options below the Apple Intelligence model. Plus, it additionally introduced a partnership with OpenAI to let iPhone customers invoke ChatGPT for sure queries.
Nonetheless, this deal isn’t unique, and Apple mentioned it’s open to integrating totally different AI fashions with its units. At its Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC), the corporate confirmed that it’ll work with Google to deploy Gemini.
Whereas Meta may not have the privilege of being immediately built-in with hundreds of thousands of units, the corporate will rely by itself apps, similar to Instagram, WhatsApp, Fb, and Messenger with billions of customers throughout them. On Monday, the corporate broadly launched its Meta AI chatbot to customers in India, its largest market on the earth.