Apple has rejected overtures by Meta Platforms to integrate the social networking company’s AI chatbot into the iPhone months ago, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
The companies are not in discussions for an AI partnership
involving Meta’s Llama chatbot and only held brief talks in March, the report
said.
Discussions about a potential partnership did not reach a
formal stage and Apple was not actively planning on integrating Llama into
iPhones, because it does not consider Instagram owner Meta’s privacy practices
stringent enough, according to Bloomberg News.
The preliminary talks took place around the time Apple
started hashing out deals to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Alphabet’s Gemini in its
products, the report said.
Apple unveiled its long-awaited AI strategy at its annual
developer conference earlier in June, bringing OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to its
devices and integrating its new “Apple Intelligence” technology across its
suite of apps, including virtual assistant Siri.
Apple and Meta did not immediately respond to Reuters
requests for comment.
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news of the talks between the companies.
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