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Apple 'Open' to Acquisition That Accelerates AI Roadmap
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I don't know if this would be a hot take or not, but Anthropic makes more sense to me purely on tech grounds. They have their own model, they focus or allege to focus on safety, and the model itself is pretty good.
But I assume with their valuation and investments from other tech giants makes it not feasible.
But I assume with their valuation and investments from other tech giants makes it not feasible.
That's sort of how they've done it with chatGPT but yet their implementation sucks ass. Much easier and more reliable to just use the chatGPT app directly.
100% Perplexity is a breath of fresh air. It’s what a search engine should be imho. Easy to check sources as it places source references right inline.
The only thing I am missing on the free plan is the ability to go through the list of sources after a query has been processed to exclude specific sources and then running the query again using only the included sources and not the excluded ones.
Don’t know if that’s possible at all on a paid plan either.
Tim Apple has no idea. He just needs to buy something that has AI in the name so that it can temporarily pump Apple stock up.
Perplexity’s playing hard to get, putting as much distance between themselves and Apple as a vegan at a butcher shop. They’re gunning to quadruple their value faster than you can say “tech bubble.” I’ve been poking around, chatting up the big dogs in the AI game, and so far, Grok’s the cool kid on the block, serving up straight talk without the sanctimonious lecture or nanny-state finger wagging. No biased undertones, just the good stuff. In my opinion perplexity and Apple deserve each other, where they can more easily cater to their demographic.
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Tim has been very disciplined when it comes to acquisitions. I don’t see him buying something to pump stock.
AI is shedding the hype outside of small echo chamber. Deleting the prod databases, lying about deleting. They are far less useful currently if you get past the hype. Grok and Ani are pure entertainment, that at least is fun if you are in to that sort of thing. Apple should lay off buying any AI now, still early days.
This is exactly why they cannot lay off. Intel failed to see the lay of the land, and chose not to invest R&D in AI, and their current CEO now says its too late for them to be part of the AI movement. Apple is likewise in danger of being left behind, preceisly because its the early days and there companies that getting established. Just look at MS trying to break back into the cell phone market with their windows phone, it was too little too late. If apple drags their feet, and/or are unable to show they're making inroads, technical people who work on AI will not be working for them but their competitors.
Companies are investing in millions and millions on AI, and I don't mean companies developing AI, but raather using AI. Help desks/service centers are using AI, hospitals are using AI to aide in diagoses - its been reported that AI can sport breast cancer a lot earlier then doctors have when reviewing mammograms.
Edit: My company is heavily investing in AI, for a number of aspects, including programming, support, and other areas that I'm not permitted to discuss. Its not hype
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They should lay off to avoid buying yahoo of early internet days. Yahoo or others could have bought Google for couple of millions. Google of AI hasn’t showed up yet. LLM will implode as they are hitting data/training saturation just like Intel hit with clock speeds and cores. The real investments in AI hasn’t even begun.
Exactly my point, Yahoo sat on their hands and took a wait and see attitude, and look where they are now?
Yahoo bought companies too early and stuck to have people spend more time on their portal which was opposite of Google. Apple should stay off from yahoos of AI. Like I said real show hasn’t begun. I give credit to Meta on investing to go beyond LLMs. Apple should wait or keep working on something beyond the hype. Should be long game beyond current AI approach.
Yahoo had the chance to buy google and didn't and they failed to grasp the popularity and need of a search engine, even though they start off as search engine company.
They thought their human curated indexing was superior to google's automated approach. They failed to innovate on a technology and they lost out. Apple is in danger of the same thing. I don't think they'll go out of business but they need to be part of the innovation or they'll be left behind.
I mentioned that in my post above. Which is why Apple need to buy Google of AI, which doesn’t exist today. Grab some innovative company in early stage not LLM mambo jumbo.
Unless you can provide a nurturing environment for specialists in AI to stay and do their best work, there is no point buying an AI company if they will want to leave because they feel stifled. Apple has many ethical and implementation concerns that may discourage development.
My worry is that if Apple doesn't do this is that they will be left behind as more mundane work is handed off to AI agents. Obviously that does leave the question: what are humans good for? A lot of people still want a human touch in the final product, especially in creative fields.
My worry is that if Apple doesn't do this is that they will be left behind as more mundane work is handed off to AI agents. Obviously that does leave the question: what are humans good for? A lot of people still want a human touch in the final product, especially in creative fields.
Did Grok write this? Because it sure as hell reads as written by an LLM. Who tf says "serving up" 😂
Most creatives arent actually that creative, and I think we will see the human touch only from the special few who are. It will be interesting to see if and how AI iterates and develops new ideas and trends itself. These things always come from a few not the many....... the many just copy the few.