Technology company Apple is developing its own AI framework, code-named Ajax, whose main goal is to build extended language models.
Post Dates – Thursday 11:10 AM – July 20
San Francisco: Apple has reportedly entered the generative artificial intelligence (AI) race, internally creating what it calls Apple GPT to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta.
The iPhone maker has created its own AI framework, code-named Ajax, for creating large-scale language models, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Ajax reportedly runs on Google Cloud and is built using Google JAX, the search giant’s machine learning framework.
Apple is using Ajax to create large language models and as the basis for an internal ChatGPT style tool. The company did not immediately comment on the report. Apple employees are reportedly using chatbots to help with product prototyping.
It is similar to Bard, ChatGPT and Bing AI. Apple has recently stepped up its hiring efforts for generative artificial intelligence talent. The company is looking for “engineers with a deep understanding of large-scale language models and generative artificial intelligence.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said the company will use artificial intelligence thoughtfully. The news comes as Meta also joins the AI race, partnering with Microsoft to release Llama 2, an open source large language model. Llama 2 is available through various providers and is free for commercial use and research.
Meta said that we are opening up the use of Llama 2, and have the support of many companies and people in technology, academia and policy, who also believe in the open innovation approach of artificial intelligence technology today.
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated what those who develop these technologies have long known — that they have the potential to help people do incredible things, create new eras of economic and social opportunity, and provide individuals, creators, and businesses with new ways to express themselves and connect, Meta said.
