Apple has formed a team of 16 experts, spending millions of dollars a day to promote conversational AI

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com Sept. 7, according to the latest report from foreign technology media The Information, Apple has greatly increased its investment in the field of artificial intelligence.

Both Microsoft and Google have launched conversational AI, but there is no sign that Apple will launch a consumer-oriented AI in the near future.

The report points out that Apple has set up a team called "Foundational Models". Although the team is only 16 people, Apple spends more than millions of dollars a day on research in the field of AI. According to the name of the team, it should be to build the infrastructure of generative AI.

CTOnews.com previously reported that similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Bing, Google's Bard and other big language models, Apple has developed a "Ajax" framework for the AI project and its own internal chat robot, which some engineers call "Apple GPT."

The "Ajax" platform is based on Google's Jax machine learning framework and runs on Google Cloud. According to reports, Apple considered signing a contract with OpenAI and tried OpenAI's technology, but eventually abandoned the plan.

As OpenAI Sam Altman indicates, training large language models requires a lot of hardware, and the company has spent more than $100 million on GPT-4 (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 730 million yuan).

According to The Information, Apple has other AI targets. The company's goal is to develop a feature that allows Siri voice assistants to automate multi-step tasks.