How Apple is Catching Up in the AI Race

TapTechNews June 7th news, The Wall Street Journal published a commentary article on June 5th with the title of 'How Did Apple Fall Behind in the AI Arms Race?', stating that the important factor that prompted Apple to attach great importance to AI in the iOS 18 system is the obvious pressure felt by the software director Craig Federighi after using GitHub Copilot.

TapTechNews cited the media report that Federighi tested the Copilot coding tool launched by Microsoft's GitHub in December 2022 and became an 'AI convert'. Copilot adopts OpenAI technology and is designed to help programmers write code, troubleshoot, and translate code into different programming languages.

Federighi, after testing GitHub Copilot, began to recognize and be optimistic about the future prospects of generative AI, and then instructed engineering staff to create new ways to integrate AI functionality into Apple's applications and features.

Apple has accelerated the internal development of generative AI and has even recruited some former Apple Car employees to work on the development of this technology, but it has also discussed with OpenAI and Google and is expected to rely on both internal AI models and external partners.