Apple is reportedly internally testing Ajax, a secret, privacy-focused AI chatbot with plans to announce some major advance in 2024.
Apple has been conspicuously absent in generative AI news, while OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are making headlines with their advances daily. However, the iPhone maker hasn’t given up, and a privacy-focused Apple AI is undergoing internal testing.
According to Bloomberg’s report, Apple is working on a chatbot and has already been testing it internally. Gurman’s sources claim that Apple’s AI plans are expected to be revealed in a major announcement in 2024. Apple engineers are said to refer to the AI as “Apple GPT” internally, suggesting it could use a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) somewhat similar to OpenAI’s model.
Apple’s AI is a large language model itself is reportedly called “Ajax,” which runs on Google Cloud using Google’s Jax machine learning framework. Apple uses Google Cloud for iCloud services as well, and the data is encrypted and secure.
