Apple’s OpenAI partnership: A boost for Siri or a trojan horse for Microsoft?

VentureBeat June 10, 2024
Michael Nuñez

Apple unveiled a new partnership with OpenAI at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today, promising to bring advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to the iPhone, iPad and Mac. But as the dust settles on Apple’s splashy keynote, the biggest story isn’t Apple’s full-throated embrace of AI — it’s the growing distance between Microsoft and its one-time AI darling, OpenAI.

Over the past year, Microsoft has been aggressively expanding its AI partnerships and initiatives well beyond OpenAI. The Redmond-based tech giant has inked multi-billion dollar deals with Hitachi to co-develop industry-specific AI solutions, with Mistral to create next-generation natural language models, and with a host of other firms to explore AI applications in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and more.

Microsoft is also...

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