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Apple almost open-sourced its AI models, here’s why it didn’t: report


A new report outlines the internal AI drama Apple has experienced recently, including the decision not to open-source its AI models.

Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Still, it also would have revealed to the public how dramatically the performance of the models dropped when Apple shrunk them to fit on iPhones, compared to versions for more powerful PCs or data center computers. Apple’s AI researchers being completely caught off guard when Siri’s feature delays were announced, as they had until then received nothing but positive affirmation about their work.

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