OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has consolidated his grip on power at the tech firm that briefly ousted him last fall by inking a major deal with Apple to incorporate artificial intelligence into its products, according to a report.
Ariel Zilber for The New York Post:
The 39-year-old tech mogul has pushed out his rivals from the company’s board and is moving full steam ahead with plans to overhaul its nonprofit structure.
With the Apple deal, Altman is now hoping bring the company closer to its goal of one day replacing Google as the iPhone maker’s search partner for its Safari web browser, according to The Information… But Altman’s plans face potential roadblocks.
Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI, is reportedly concerned about how the deal with Apple could affect its own AI ambitions.
Altman recently held a meeting with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to discuss Microsoft’s concerns, according to The Information.
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MacDailyNews Take: Screw Satya Nadella’s “concerns.” Microsoft has always been and remains a maker of mediocre-at-best tech. If it isn;t already, Microsoft will be an albatross around OpenAI’s neck. OpenAI will benefit greatly from any association with Apple until Apple catches up in GenAI and is ready to do it itself (which hopefully goes better and faster than Apple’s modem efforts).
I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. — Steve Jobs
See also:
• Apple to power some AI features with via data centers using Apple Silicon – May 9, 2024
• Apple teaming with OpenAI on chatbot to be announced at WWDC – May 20, 2024
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Apple will regret doing anything with Altman – he nothing but a hot air bag opportunist!
Apple will licence the tech and build their own products, experiences, and roadmaps (a la ARM).
Apple did the absolute most wrong thing and paying the degenerates at OpenAI which is neither open, nor AI, for their pile of s*** chatbot, instead of using the LLMs that Meta released as open source for free.
I mean, just how stupid is cook? It’s astonishing that one person can be so consistently stupid.
No plan B with production in a hostile chinese crap country that can end apple tomorrow. Stayed too long knowing he doesnt know crap about products. Doubling down and going to Vietnam, another hostile communist s-hole. And now paying for a crap chatbot when facebook released an open source version just as good, but wait for it, for free and via open source.
Unreal.
Apple needs a master chef, but all it has is a lousy cook.
#BozoPurgeApple
Surprised by this. You want Apple to tie itself to Meta?
It’s not meta anymore. It’s open source.
Remember how apple took on the opensource webkit to make safari. Google later took apple’s work and built their PoS chrome with it.
They can do anything they want with it. It’s open sourced. Unlike OpenAI, it actually is open. Meta did it to cut OpenAI at its feet, and the smart money is using the Llama 3, which is very close to ChatGPT4.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/18/1076479/metas-latest-ai-model-is-free-for-all/