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Apple is likely to announce a Partnership to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system at WWDC24

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Apple is calling upon OpenAI, the leading startup in generative artificial intelligence, in an effort to catch up in the exploding AI space that is now dominated by Microsoft, Google and others. Apple has reportedly forged a partnership to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system. Though the controversial Altman is unlikely to take the stage at the WWDC24 event, the agreement will be a key focus at Apple's Developer Conference.

It's a win-win deal which gives OpenAI access to hundreds of millions of Apple users, including ones that might have been hesitant to try ChatGPT otherwise. For Apple, the arrangement brings a chatbot with powerful abilities that it can pair with its own services. At present, Apple homegrown chatbot isn't yet up to snuff.

The two companies haven’t disclosed the deal publicly yet, and terms of the arrangement aren’t clear.

The WWDC keynote address, delivered by Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook on June 10, is seen as Apple’s biggest sales pitch in years. The company has to convince consumers, developers and investors that it can thrive in the AI era. And there’s added pressure because Apple’s existing business is stagnant, with revenue declining in five of the past six quarters.

Apple’s biggest peers have all made headway in the AI space. Google’s Gemini chatbot is vying with ChatGPT for supremacy in the nascent market. Microsoft Corp., OpenAI’s biggest backer, has begun weaving its AI-assisted Copilot into software. And Amazon.com Inc. has demonstrated an AI-enhanced version of Alexa.

Behind the scenes, software chief Craig Federighi pushed managers to pack the latest version of the iPhone and iPad operating system — known internally as “Crystal” — with as much AI as possible. Eddy Cue’s services division got to work on new data center infrastructure for powering online AI services. Staffers also began investigating how AI could come to Apple Music and the company’s office-productivity apps.

Though Apple remains in talks with Google about using Gemini in its devices, the iPhone maker reached an agreement with OpenAI first. In the end, Apple may offer a number of third-party chatbots, but it’s negotiating the deals on a case-by-case basis, according to the people with knowledge of the situation.

Apple picked OpenAI as its inaugural AI partner for a few reasons, one of the people said. It got better business terms than Google was offering, and Apple believes that OpenAI’s technology is the best available on the market. Integrating Google AI into the iPhone also might have given the impression that Apple’s biggest technology rival had beat it in a vital new area.

Interestingly, Apple is expected to offer its new AI features as an opt-in service, so that wary customers could easily steer clear of them if they’d prefer.

For more, read the full Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman.   

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