Jun 25, 2024 10:39:00

Apple has no plans to partner with Meta on AI, and has reportedly rejected their offer to provide AI.

At its annual developer conference,

WWDC24 , Apple announced its personal AI, ' Apple Intelligence ,' and revealed a partnership with AI company OpenAI. Apple has revealed plans to expand the number of AI chatbots available for Apple Intelligence beyond OpenAI's ChatGPT, and is known to be in discussions with other companies. While it had previously been reported that Apple and Meta were in discussions regarding this matter, new reports have revealed that no such discussions have taken place, and that Apple has rejected Meta's offer to provide its AI.

Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership With Meta Months Ago - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-24/apple-spurned-idea-of-iphone-ai-partnership-with-meta-months-ago

Apple rejected partnership with Meta to bring its AI chatbot to iOS
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/24/apple-partnership-meta-ai-ios-18/

Apple announced Apple Intelligence, a personal AI that will be available in the next major versions of its operating systems for iPhone, iPad, and Mac: iOS 18 , iPadOS 18 , and macOS Sequoia . Among the various features that will be added to Apple Intelligence is the integration of OpenAI's ChatGPT, which will further evolve Apple's voice recognition assistant, Siri.

Apple announces new personal AI 'Apple Intelligence,' partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT support to Siri - GIGAZINE

Apple also plans to integrate AI other than OpenAI, and has indicated its intention to integrate Google's multimodal AI, Gemini .

Additionally, it has been reported that Apple is in talks with Meta to integrate their AI models.

Apple is in talks with Meta to form an AI-related partnership - GIGAZINE

However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a frequent source of Apple-related leaks, reported that Apple rejected Meta's request to integrate its AI chatbot, Llama, into the iPhone several months ago.

According to Bloomberg, sources familiar with the matter said Apple and Meta have not discussed a partnership and only held a brief meeting in March 2024. The two companies have not yet reached a formal partnership stage, and Apple has no plans to integrate Meta's Llama. The discussions between Apple and Meta reportedly came at a time when Apple was beginning to hold discussions with OpenAI and Google about potential AI partnerships.

According to sources, Apple ended its partnership with Meta because it felt its privacy practices were not strict enough. Apple has been critical of Meta (formerly Facebook)'s privacy practices for years , but integrating Llama into the iPhone would be a major departure from that policy.

'Apple also believes that OpenAI's ChatGPT is a better chatbot than Meta's Llama, which is why the partnership with Meta fell through. Gurman also pointed out that Apple's AI partnership with Google may be due in part to a partnership between the two companies to set Google Search as the default search engine in Safari.'

Apple is also reportedly in talks with AI startup Anthropic to integrate chatbots into Siri, with the company's AI also set to be rolled out in the second half of 2024.

While the partnership between Apple and OpenAI does not involve monetary exchange, Apple plans to generate revenue for OpenAI by allowing paid ChatGPT users to access the subscription via iOS. If the paid subscription is paid for through the App Store, Apple will receive a commission.