Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner held an hourlong all-hands assembly during which he instructed staff that the corporate must win in AI, in accordance with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
The assembly got here after an earnings name during which Cook dinner instructed buyers and analysts that Apple would “considerably” improve its AI investments. It appears he had an identical message for Apple staff, reportedly telling them, “Apple should do that. Apple will do that. That is form of ours to seize.”
Regardless of launching a wide range of AI-powered options up to now yr underneath the Apple Intelligence umbrella, the corporate’s promised upgrades to its voice assistant Siri have been considerably delayed. And Cook dinner appeared to acknowledge that the corporate has fallen behind its rivals.
“We’ve not often been first,” he reportedly stated. “There was a PC earlier than the Mac; there was a smartphone earlier than the iPhone; there have been many tablets earlier than the iPad; there was an MP3 participant earlier than iPod.” However in his telling, that didn’t cease Apple from inventing the “trendy” variations of these merchandise.
