Apple Enters the AI Race, Boosting Google in the Process

In the race to win the large-language model race, one big tech name has not surfaced as a contestant: Apple. Until now.

My colleague Wayne Ma reported on Wednesday that Apple created a team four years ago, long before the current generative AI hype cycle, to develop large-language models. In other words, Apple may not be as much of an LLM laggard as people thought.

That shouldn’t be surprising, given that Apple has been a visionary in the past, …

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