TECH - Just Like Its Car Dreams Is Apple Steering Away From AI? This Billionaire Investor Thinks So | Benzinga
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is reportedly in discussions with Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and ChatGPT-parent OpenAI to license their generative AI models — and billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya thinks this decision mirrors Cupertino's approach toward electric cars.
What Happened: On Monday, Canadian-American venture capitalists Palihapitiya took to X, formerly Twitter, and said, "Voice will be THE critical ‘front door' for the next gen of the AI powered internet."
He added that voice and text will span a wider range of internet functionalities than any other mode, including images.
"It stands to reason, then, that if Apple with all of their cash and engineering prowess has to rely on a third party (Google or OpenAI) to provide the AI powered interface for iOS (per reporting this morning), a few things are true," Palihapitiya ...