Report: Apple has already built its own ChatGPT-like chatbot
Apple has built its own large language model (LLM) AI framework and associated chatbot service similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft's ChatGPT-based Bing Chat, according to a new report.
The project is codenamed "Ajax" internally, the sources say, though some engineers within the company colloquially refer to it as "Apple GPT." It is built on top of Google machine learning framework Jax and runs on Google Cloud. The news comes via an article from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who cites "people with knowledge of the efforts." Gurman has generally been accurate in his reports citing sources like these in the past, though he has seemingly misinterpreted what he was told on rare occasions.
Ajax was developed "as an experiment" around the end of 2022 and has since been used by Apple employees for some tasks like product prototyping. However, there have been stops and starts. Initially, the rollout was put on hold "over security concerns," and there is a rule within the company that it can't yet be used to build anything that will ultimately be consumer-facing.
