Klipc reports: Apple may be making another big move in the field of artificial intelligence, and the company recently opened negotiations with major news and publishing organizations for a multi-year cooperation agreement worth at least $50 million, seeking to use these news organizations' materials in the company's development of the company's artificial intelligence system.
Allen, an analyst at Klipc, said: "In the AI war this year, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have used all their strengths to seize the opportunity in the AI track, but Apple, as a technology leader, is "dumb" in this competition. In fact, Apple is not the first company to partner with news organizations on artificial intelligence. Earlier, OpenAI had signed agreements with the Associated Press and Politico parent company Axel Springer to use their reports to help train its AI models.
Since December, Apple has also released its research and development progress in the field of AI, in early December, Apple announced the Apple Silicon platform's dedicated AI framework MLX, and the method of executing large language models on the device side, and last week, Apple once again announced new results - Ferret large language model and related benchmark testing tools and datasets.
It is worth mentioning that the release of Ferret is significant for researchers, as it shows that Apple is gradually opening up its AI research, in stark contrast to the previous image of mystery and closure, but Apple is also facing this adjustment in terms of infrastructure, although Apple is increasing the number of AI servers, it is still far from large enough compared to ChatGPT.
It is worth mentioning that Apple is also reportedly working on an improved version of Siri and plans to provide AI-focused features for the next big iOS.
Alex Su, an institutional member of Klipc, said: "Although Apple has not received as much attention in AI as OpenAI and Microsoft recently, Apple is still struggling to catch up, and it is understood that Apple is now spending millions of dollars on AI every day. ”