What I don't get is why not Anthropic? It's a great model for what kind of person uses a Mac, and this would give their customer's data to what is effectively their most viable competitor. What gives?
gm678 · 12h ago
> Apple is still several weeks away from making a decision on whether to continue using internal models for Siri or move to a partner. And it hasn’t yet determined who that partner may be. ...
> Executives had long viewed Anthropic as the leading candidate for a partnership, but *the financial terms demanded by that company led Apple to broaden the search and bring others into the mix*. Apple certainly hasn’t ruled out sticking to its own models either.
> Internally, Apple is holding a bake-off to see which approach will work best. The company is simultaneously developing two versions of the new Siri: one dubbed Linwood that is powered by its models and another code-named Glenwood that runs on outside technology.
davidcollantes · 1d ago
Apple already does business with Alphabet (Google search, and Cloud Storage, for example).
bigyabai · 1d ago
Apple doesn't compete with Google in model training. If they did then they wouldn't be in-talks like this right now.
> Executives had long viewed Anthropic as the leading candidate for a partnership, but *the financial terms demanded by that company led Apple to broaden the search and bring others into the mix*. Apple certainly hasn’t ruled out sticking to its own models either.
> Internally, Apple is holding a bake-off to see which approach will work best. The company is simultaneously developing two versions of the new Siri: one dubbed Linwood that is powered by its models and another code-named Glenwood that runs on outside technology.