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Apple is working on a large-scale language model (LLM) running on the device side that will prioritize responsiveness and privacy-protecting capabilities, according to a revelation by leading tech journalist Mark Gurman, who said the model will be the basis for Apple's future generative AI capabilities, which will run entirely on the device, not in the cloud. (TechCrunch Daily)

April 2, 2011 - Apple's research team recently published a paper announcing their success in developing an innovative artificial intelligence system. This system is able to accurately understand the blurred content on the screen and its related dialog and background environment, and then realize a more natural interaction with the voice assistant. Named ReALM (Reference Resolution As Language Modeling), this system takes the complex task of understanding what visual elements on the screen point to through the use of large language models...

Apple unveils ReALM, a new AI system that outperforms GPT-4 in understanding on-screen visual element references; ReALM enhances reference parsing for conversational assistants by transforming visual layouts into textual representations; Despite progress, ReALM has limitations in handling complex visual references and needs to be combined with multimodal techniques. (AI Tech Bazaar)

Apple has announced that they will be hosting their Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10-14, 2024. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is predicted to release major software updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro headset and smartwatch, with a new AI strategy at the forefront and focus of the iOS 18 upgrade program. However, he doesn't think Apple is planning to launch their own chatbot in the iOS 18 upgrade.

Apple's AI version of the App Store is coming. In an interview, the head of technology at Wall Street consultancy Melius Research said that Apple may launch an 'AI version of the App Store' at WWDC in June. It is reported that consumers can get AI services from AI providers in this AI App Store. (Lovefan)

Analysts have revealed that Apple is planning to tweak the A18 Pro chip to improve the device's AI capabilities and increase the chip's production ahead of schedule. It suggests that the A18 Pro chip will have a larger chip area and will be used primarily for AI edge computing, meaning it will process data directly on the device. Apple may rely on cloud infrastructure to run some of its AI functions and other AI functions entirely on the device. (Core Stuff)

Apple CEO Tim Cook talked about generative AI for the first time in China during his recent visit to Shanghai, and teased that there will be related news to be announced later this year. According to media reports, Apple is negotiating with Google to introduce Google's generative AI model Gemini to iPhone, and Apple's own large language model, internally codenamed "Ajax", has also entered the testing stage. (Interface News)

Mark Gurman reports that Apple is in talks to bring Google's generative AI big model, Gemini, to the iPhone.Sources familiar with the matter have revealed that the two companies are in active talks to get Apple a license for Gemini to power some of the new features in this year's iPhone software. Apple has also been in discussions with OpenAI to consider adopting its model.Gurman also reports that Apple has been testing its own big language model, codenamed Ajax, since early last year, and that some of its employees are also testing a new model called...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the company will introduce a new round of generative AI technology in 2024 to enhance the user experience. Apple plans to introduce new generative AI features in iOS 18, including upgrades to Siri and Spotlight. Apple is also exploring the use of AI technology to generate Keynote presentations, Apple Music playlists, and Xcode coding suggestions. This initiative demonstrates Apple's commitment to advancing AI technology and integrating it into its products and services. Tim Koo...

Apple has announced the termination of its decade-long electric car program. Many of the nearly 2,000 employees on the project will be moved to the Artificial Intelligence division, led by John Giannandrea, to focus on generative AI projects.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday that the company believes "generative AI has incredible breakthrough potential," which is why it is making major investments in the field, according to Caixin. Apple believes it (AIGC) will bring transformative opportunities for users in terms of increased productivity, problem solving and more. As before, Cook also promised on Wednesday that later this year Apple will share "ways to break new ground in AIGC," another "technology that can redefine the future."

Apple is phasing out its decade-long plan to explore electric cars by canceling the project and shifting its team to generative artificial intelligence, people familiar with the matter have revealed, according to Caixin. Apple disclosed the news internally on Tuesday, surprising the nearly 2,000 employees involved in the program, with Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, the vice president in charge of the effort, making the decision. The two executives told employees that the program would begin to wind down, and that many of the employees on the team responsible for the car would be transferred to executive John Giannandrea...

Apple is internally testing a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool similar to OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT, called Ask, that automatically generates answers based on information from Apple's internal database, according to foreign media reports. Since the end of 2022, Apple has been playing catch-up in order to remain competitive in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI. (TechWeb)

Apple is set to launch an assisted programming tool similar to GitHub Copilot that uses generative AI to help supplement code completion. The tool will be introduced as part of the next major Xcode release, and Apple has been working on the project for a year and expects it to launch as soon as this year, with Apple announcing the new tool as early as WWDC, its developer conference in June. Microsoft's GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021 and generates code based on natural language queries.

The Apple team published a paper on arXiv proposing a visual model of AIM that uses autoregressive generative targets for pre-training. The study demonstrates that autoregressive pre-training of image features has scaling properties similar to their textual counterparts (i.e., large language models). Specifically, the paper makes two main findings: the model capacity can be easily scaled to billions of parameters, and AIM effectively utilizes a large unfiltered image dataset. Paper address: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.08541 https://arxiv....

Apple's AI researchers have deployed large language models on memory-limited devices through flash memory utilization techniques that promise to give future iPhones more powerful Siri and other AI features. They came up with a clever flash memory utilization technique, windowing and row-column bundling, that allows models to run in limited memory. This breakthrough opens up new possibilities for AI capabilities on the iPhone, and Apple has plans to integrate AI into more apps, including Siri and other features. Apple is also working on its own generative AI model, "Aj...

Apple is investing "heavily" in generative AI programs, says CEO Tim Cook.

Apple's research team has proposed a nested diffusion model called Matryoshka Diffusion Models (MDM) for generating high-resolution images. The central idea of the research is to train models that can generate 1024×1024 pixel single-pixel spatial models by using a low-resolution diffusion process as part of high-resolution generation and performing a joint diffusion process at multiple resolutions through a nested UNet architecture. Paper address: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.15111.pdf

According to The Information, Humane, a smart software and consumer device developer co-founded by two departing Apple employees, is set to unveil next month the first product it has secretly been working on for several years, the Ai Pin, a screen-less, "clothing-based wearable device" that will be powered by Qualcomm's advanced Snapdragon chip capable of running GPT-4. Qualcomm's advanced Snapdragon chip, which is capable of running GPT-4. Humane is aiming to free humans from their addiction to screens and create something that surpasses Apple's smartphones or Google Glass.

According to Apple's official job listing, the company has stepped up its recruitment of AI engineers and plans to integrate AI elements into many of its services and platforms. For example, the position planned to be recruited for the App Store reads in the introduction: "We are developing an AI-based generative developer experience platform for internal use and to assist our application development team." Another job in Apple's retail department mentions the development of a "conversational AI platform (voice and chat)" to interact with customers. Apple's job listing also mentions tasks such as building text generation technology, such as "long text generation, summaries...

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