https://archive.ph/Dc6jS

This is good news. When I read the news that Apple is going to invest into OpenAI, I was a bit sad because Apple always tries to avoid to jump into the hype trains like blockchain, NFTs, metaverse etc.

Yes, there is Apple Intelligence but it is mostly writing tools, Xcode code completion, an emoji generator and so on. Nothing like something that is going to replace jobs, AGI and so on how OpenAI is marketing their products.

> Apple reportedly believes that the exposure the iOS 18 integration is giving OpenAI is “of equal or greater value” than cash.

So it's not just gig workers who get offered exposure to pay the bills.

i can’t imagine being a a trillion dollar company doing any serious business with a company where the entire executive suite has vacated except the ceo that’s clearly doing things.

at this phase, it would be disastrous for apple to bank their reputation on sam.

What makes openai special in comparison to its competitors that apple wants to integrate their service?

Apple is on track to own everything in the vertical except chip manufacturing. It would make sense for them to invest in their products and services over something with more varied interests.

The future will be local models. Let these investors burn the money.

If AMD can do it, they can as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41674382

I am disappointment in the AI advancements in the recent years. It turns out progress is made not for the sake of the technology and the good for humankind, but for money. Just another pump and dump...

You have to feel that apple is missing out on buying into this investment as it will clearly become very valuable.

As this is certainly not a money issue it may be in relation to privacy issues found by the Apple due diligence team at some point. Fixable - let's do it. Not fixable - let's move on to something else.

I was part of a few due diligence teams and the things we found sometimes broke the potential investment in less than a day in...

Nobody's perfect - but I think it's safe to say Apple makes a significant effort when it comes to privacy.

AI in its current state is a bubble. It's going to pop soon, and then we'll get back to business as usual.

Maybe Apple just realized that they would have bought the top of a massive pump and dump scheme with the huge risk of the researchers leaving the company whilst the training and inference costs suffocates OpenAI.

Sometimes, FOMOing into a pump and dump is not worth it and they were just too late.

Is this actually related to the recent exodus? Apple is paying OpenAI nothing for use of their model on iPhones. Maybe they just realized being able to get away with paying nothing is a sign of how commoditized models will be.

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