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🚀 Big News from Apple! 🍏 As we eagerly await Apple's WWDC, exciting AI features for iOS 18 and macOS 15 are on the horizon! Dubbed "Project Greymatter," here’s a sneak peek at what's expected: 🔹Photo retouching 🔹Voice memo transcription. 🔹Suggested replies to emails and messages. 🔹Auto-generated emojis based on the content of a user's messages, providing all-new emoji for any occasion beyond the existing catalog. 🔹Improved Safari web search. 🔹Faster and more reliable searches in Spotlight. 🔹More natural interactions with Siri. 🔹More advanced version of Siri designed for the Apple Watch, optimized for "on-the-go tasks." 🔹Smart recaps of missed notifications and individual messages, web-pages, news articles, documents, notes, and more. 🔹Developer tools forXCode From the Bloomberg article ( https://lnkd.in/eP2SHBf3 ) by Mark Gurman, these updates are set to enhance functionality while boosting privacy. #Apple #iOS18 #macOS15 #AI #TechInnovation #UserPrivacy #WWDC #artificialintelligence #openai #siri #xcode #appleai #safari #2024 #llm

WWDC is fast approaching and it’s a big one for Apple. Typically the company is ahead of the curve and ready to make waves, but this year it’s looking to catch up on AI (while still leading the way in other areas of course). This was a great article on the current landscape for Apple heading into one of its bigger events of the year. https://buff.ly/4dIUqw3 #WWDC #WWDC2024 #Apple #iOS #AI #AppleNews

Exciting developments around Apple: ♊ Apple & Google discuss partnership to license the Gemini AI for iPhone 🤖 Simultaneously, Apple's just released a paper on its MM1 MLLM model Why does it matter? 1️⃣ Apple, known for its design-oriented hardware, is stepping firmly into AI space (it recently acquired Darwin AI which is its latest target in a long stream of AI-related acquisitions) 2️⃣ Apple wants to speed up the time-to-market for its AI capabilities using Google's product (Apple was also rumoured to be in talks with Open AI) 3️⃣ We might see big AI announcements from Tim Cook this September. Maybe even MLLM-powered Siri? https://lnkd.in/dxxgSede https://lnkd.in/dnmuf3Q2 #apple #google #geminiai #artificialintelligence #techinnovation #ios

Apple's #WWDC announcements have dropped. As expected, there was a lot of AI sprinkled across the new software platforms. Here are some take-aways: - Apple Intelligence works across apps and provides a lot of small contextual AI features relying on your personal messages, photos, calendar and email. - There is an interesting mix of on-device processing and "verifiably private" cloud computing for access to larger models. - Siri will get smarter with voice and text input and provides a free ChatGPT 4o access. - As it stands, the iPhone 15 Pro is the only phone that gets access, but all the M-series Mac and iPad devices are enabled. - Another limitation is a restriction to US English for the first release this fall, more languages are coming in 2025. There is still a lot to learn, but it's definitely a unique approach to system-level AI integration.

Weird, but makes sense. #Apple already gets paid by #google billions to be the premiere, exclusive #searchengine for #ios/#ipados. Question is, Apple is a privacy first company, Google is really not - so how could this ever work? But if it is a license, like #microsoft has done with #openai, where they van also modify it to their will, now that’s different. Big problem though, #apple was bragging along with the industry, including myself, of an #generativeai agent that would benresident locally on device using a mee method that they exclusively developed. #google announced that they had not yet figured this out with their Nano version of #gemini. So what will we get? I am a little disappointed that #apple’s efforts with their internal initiative for next generation #ai integration into #siri has yet to pay off, if this is true. But, if they want to put their best foot forward in the short term, and #openai was not available or wouldn’t play ball or vice versa, then Google is a great choice abeit just not aquiring a competitor like #mistral. Besides, they already have a longstanding relationship with Google, so #ell has not frozen over as much yet - this time. #weshallsee #ai #chatbot #applenews #tech #technews #breakingnews

Apple's unique user community is, perhaps, its most promising asset in terms of the drivers it can bring to the task of pivoting from dependence on the iPhone as its primary revenue source.   Apple products run on unique operating systems substantially dissimilar from Microsoft Windows on the desktop, and Android for mobile devices. Apple has chosen not to compete with hyperscalers (although, perhaps, iCloud does some competition), so a comparison to Linux is not applicable.   Therefore, an argument can be made Apple users are a captive audience. News of Apple's ongoing conversations with OpenAI and Google makes sense. I think it is not out of the question to anticipate Apple capturing some meaningful licensing revenue from one, or both of these companies in exchange for the right to develop and bring to market humanlike chatbots specifically for Apple hardware.   Is this an "investible" assumption?   #apple #flywheeleffects #platforms #usercommunities #openai #google #generativeai

Google is set to integrate its 'Gemini' Al into future iPhone Al features, further building on their existing search partnership. This deal could bring Google's Gemini to billions of devices with iOS18 and beyond, expected by June. Meanwhile, Apple is exploring OpenAl's models for iOS 18 enhancements but aims to use its own Al for on-device operations. However, seems to be looking for a partner for cloud-based generative Al capabilities, including image creation and essay writing just from a single prompt. This could be a massive win for Google Al and suggest that Apple may not be as advanced in its Al initiatives as many anticipated. Additionally, this isn't great news for Microsoft OpenAl. If users can have Siri summarize articles, why turn to ChatGPT for that? #Google #Apple #Al #Gemini #iOS18 #OpenAl #Microsoft Source: Bloomberg

Google I/O was impressive but not magical. I will keep this short for this afternoon. Basically Google announced nothing massively new besides hardware integrations with Pixel (Apple is next). It was largely them showing features and products that will compete with everything OpenAI and Microsoft have already released. It was impressive but not magical. I will give a longer breakdown tomorrow but here is my main takeaway. If you are on Apple devices you want to stick with OpenAI (yes they have a deal in place) and if you are on Google/Android devices than you need to stick with Gemini. This is going to come down to what environment people are in. So in the end Google and Apple will ultimately dominate because they dominate the delivery mechanism...phones. #GoogleIO2024 #TechNews #AI #OpenAI #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Android #Gemini #TechTrends #Innovation #MobileTech #TechUpdate #ProductAnnouncements #AICompetition #TechInsights #FutureTech

Alphabet shares rose 4.5% in early premarket trade on Monday, following a report that tech giant Apple is in talks to license Gemini for future iPhones. Gemini is Google's suite of generative AI tools, ranging from chatbots to coding assistants. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is in talks with Alphabet-owned Google to let the iPhone maker license and build its Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said that the two tech giants are "in active negotiations" for Gemini to power certain new features due to be released to the iPhone software later this year. Alphabet's Class A shares were 4.51% higher in premarket trade at 6.58 a.m. ET, while its Class C shares were up 4.24%. Apple shares were trading around 0.34% higher. Apple could launch iOS 18 — its latest operating system for the iPhone — at its Worldwide Developer's Conference in June.

Apple ramps up generative AI work with plan to push the technology to several products and services. Company is working on revamped Siri and LLM features in Messages, Pages, Keynote, Apple Music, Xcode and more. Apple invites retail employees to apply for secretive “product training event” in Cupertino in “first months” of 2024 for the Vision Pro. Small groups of employees from each store will learn about the device, then return to teach colleagues about it. Apple is planning to launch new iPads around March, with new entry-level, Air, Mini and Pro models in development. This gap explains why Apple didn’t wait to release the new low-end Apple Pencil. Apple’s iMacs and MacBook Pros are in extremely short supply online and at retail stores. And new models may be coming soon: the company is likely planning a Mac related launch event at the end of this month. Read all the details — https://lnkd.in/gM-qr-AH