Apple rejected overtures by Meta to participate in Apple Intelligence months ago

Apple Intelligence — the personal intelligence system for iPhone, iPad, and Mac — combines the power of generative models with personal context to deliver intelligence that’s useful and relevant to the user.

Apple rejected overtures by Meta o integrate the social networking company’s “Llama” AI chatbot into Apple devices months ago, Bloomberg News reports citing “people with knowledge of the matter.”

Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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The two companies aren’t in discussions about using Meta’s Llama chatbot in an AI partnership and only held brief talks in March, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the situation is private. The dialogue about a partnership didn’t reach any formal stage, and Apple has no active plans to integrate Llama.

The preliminary talks occurred around the time Apple started hashing out deals to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Alphabet Inc.’s Gemini in its products. The iPhone maker announced the ChatGPT agreement earlier this month and said it was expecting to offer Gemini in the future.

Apple decided not to move forward with formal Meta discussions in part because it doesn’t see that company’s privacy practices as stringent enough, according to the people. Apple has spent years criticizing Meta’s technology, and integrating Llama into the iPhone would have been a stark about-face.

Apple also sees ChatGPT as a superior offering…

Apple continues to talk to AI startup Anthropic about eventually adding that company’s chatbot as an option, the people said.

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MacDailyNews Take: Good. As we wrote just yesterday of the possibility of Meta’s AI chatbot being offered as one of Apple Intelligence’s chatbot choices, “Now, there’s one we certainly wouldn’t choose.”
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