cross-posted from !apple@lemdro.id
- Apple has been the leading buyer of AI startups since 2017, acquiring 21 companies, nearly double the number purchased by Microsoft and Meta.
- While other Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft are vocal about their AI investments, Apple remains relatively quiet, choosing to announce things as they come to market.
- The startups Apple has acquired focus on areas like self-driving technology, voice design, music generation, and image recognition.
- This acquisition strategy contrasts with companies like Microsoft and Google, who are more cautious with acquisitions due to antitrust scrutiny and instead opt for partnerships with startups.
- Apple’s AI investments have contributed to new iPhone features such as personal voice and real-time voicemail transcription.
Agreed. Apple is rarely first to use a technology, but they sort of “perfect it”, or release a version that works for a large amount of the populous. Obviously they don’t always hit home runs but very often when they release a product it sets a new baseline of what to expect out of that type of thing.
And then sue the crap out of anyone that has anything somewhat similar