Apple spends 'millions of dollars a day' to train artificial intelligence - The Information

Apple is working on several models of artificial intelligence across multiple teams and investing millions of dollars every day to train it.

Here's What We Know

According to The Information, Apple's division dedicated to developing conversational AI is called Foundational Models. It consists of about 16 people, including several former Google engineers.

The division is led by Apple's head of artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea. He joined the company in 2018 to improve Siri.

There are other teams working on artificial intelligence at Apple. The Visual Intelligence division is developing an image generation model, while another group is researching multimodal AI that can recognise and create text, images or video.

The company's developments can be used for a variety of purposes. In particular, one of the chatbots will interact with AppleCare customers, while another model will make it easier to automate multi-step tasks using Siri.

The publication's interlocutors said that Apple's most advanced language model is internally named Ajax GPT. It contains more than 200 billion parameters and is more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-3.5.

Source: The Information