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Apple reportedly has AI chatbot in progress
GPT project is under way, but lacks clear direction
Sometimes it feels like artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are taking over the world, with the likes of ChatGPT, Bing Chat and more stealing headlines daily. Amid all this cacophony, though, Apple has remained tight-lipped. Well, now we know why: it’s allegedly working on its own chatbot that could one day compete with ChatGPT and others.
That idea comes from Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman, a reporter with an impressive track record of leaking Apple’s closely held secrets. According to Gurman, Apple has “built its own framework to create large language models” or LLMs. These are essentially the scaffolds that hold up AI chatbots. Internally, the tool is being dubbed ‘Apple GPT’.
Apple hasn’t made any public announcements around developing its own take on this sort of technology, and Gurman asserts that it was “caught flat-footed in