It is reported that Apple spends ``hundreds of millions of yen per day'' on AI training

Apple's CEO Tim Cook admits that the company is developing its own generation AI , but newly said, 'Apple spends hundreds of millions of yen per day on AI training.' This is reported by the overseas media The Information.

Apple Boosts Spending to Develop Conversational AI — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-boosts-spending-to-develop-conversational-ai

Apple is reportedly spending 'millions of dollars a day' training AI - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861763/apple-ai-language-models-ajax-gpt-training-spending

It was reported in March 2023 that Apple was developing a chat AI like ChatGPT . Since then, it has been reported that the name of the chat AI being developed by Apple is ' Apple GPT ' and that this Apple GPT is already being used in Apple's internal operations.

Apple is already using its own chat AI 'Apple GPT' for internal work - GIGAZINE

Furthermore, Apple's CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that the company is developing generative AI during the financial results announcement for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023 (April-June). Apple's R&D expenses during the same period were approximately $3.12 billion (approximately 440 billion yen) higher than the same period last year, but CEO Cook explained that the reason for this was ``because we are investing in generative AI.'' I'm here.

Apple CEO Tim Cook admits that it is developing its own generative AI, Apple's R&D expenses increased by about 440 billion yen from the same period last year - GIGAZINE

Regarding the generative AI that Apple is developing, The Information says, ``What Apple is developing is conversation-side AI,'' and the department working on the development of this AI is called ``Foundational Models.'' reported that it employs approximately 16 staff members, including several former Google engineers.

According to The Information, Foundational Models is led by John Giannandrea, the head of the AI department who was hired by Apple in 2018 to improve Siri, Apple's voice recognition assistant.

Apple scouts Google's artificial intelligence (AI) development chief, which may have a major impact on Siri upgrades - GIGAZINE

According to reports, other teams at Apple are also working on AI development, with the Visual Intelligence unit developing image-generating AI models and another group 'recognizing and generating images and videos, not just text.' It seems that they are researching ``multimodal AI that can do it.''

These AI models can be used for various purposes. In fact, The Information reported that Apple is already developing a 'chatbot to interact with customers using AppleCare.' In addition, AI is also being developed to make it easier to automate multi-step tasks using Siri.

In addition, an anonymous source said to be involved in AI development at Apple said that the company is developing an advanced large-scale language model (LLM) called Ajax GPT, which is trained with over 200 billion parameters. It is expected to be a more powerful LLM than GPT 3.5 developed by OpenAI.