Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training its AI

Apple is investing millions of dollars every day in artificial intelligence, according to a new report Information. The company is working on several AI models across multiple teams.

Apple’s unit working on conversational AI is called “Foundational Models,” per InformationReporting. It has “about 16” members, including many ex-Google engineers. It is led by John Giannandrea, Apple’s head of AI, who was hired in 2018 to help improve Siri. (Giannandrea reportedly “expressed skepticism to colleagues about the potential usefulness of chatbots powered by AI language models.”)

Additional teams at Apple are also working on artificial intelligence, per Information. The Visual Intelligence Unit is developing image generation models, and another group is researching “multimodal AI,” which can recognize and generate images or videos as well as text.

These models can serve a variety of purposes. A chatbot is in the works that will “interact with customers using AppleCare”; The second will make it easier to automate multistep tasks with Siri.

It is said to be involved in its development Information Apple’s most advanced LLM, known internally as Ajax GPT, has been trained on “over 200 billion parameters” and is more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, the foundation of an early version of ChatGPT that launched last year. According to previous reports, this model was initially built for internal use Bloomberg And there is a lot of lockdown in the company.

Apple did not return a request for comment on this report.