Finance Associated Press, December 25 (edited by Liu Rui).Apple may have made another big move in the field of artificial intelligence recently. Apple is in discussions with some large news publishers to license their press materials and use the information to help train its generative AI systems, according to the report.
According to the US media, Apple is apparently discussing".Multi-year cooperation agreements valued at least $50 millionand approached Condé Nast Publications Inc, NBC News, and IAC to obtain licenses for their past news articles.
NBC News is one of the nation's top three commercial broadcasters. Condé Nast's publications include The New Yorker, Vogue, GQ and other well-known magazines, and IAC's publications include People and The Daily Beast.
However, the response from publishers approached by Apple has been mixed. According to the report, some publishers are more indifferent, which may be due to the fact that these publishers "may be legally liable for Apple's use of their content", but there are also news executives who are more optimistic about the possibility of working with Apple.
Apple's recent AI efforts haven't received as much attention as competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google, but the company is clearly trying to catch up.
Apple is now reportedly "spending millions of dollars a day on artificial intelligence."
The company recently released a machine learning framework for building models to run on Apple silicon and is working to optimize the ability to run large language models on mobile phones.
In addition, Apple is also said to be working on an improved version of Siri and plans to offer AI-focused features for the next major iOS release.
In fact, Apple is not the first company to partner with news organizations on artificial intelligence. In addition, ChatGPT developer OpenAI has signed a deal with Associated Press and Politico parent company Axel Springer to use their coverage to help train its AI models.