Bloomberg News said on Thursday that Apple has acquired the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart DarwinAI and hired dozens of employees from the Canadian company to work in its artificial intelligence department.
According to the article, which mentioned people familiar with the situation, the iPhone manufacturer bought the company a few months ago. The contract’s worth should have been included in the report.
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Comparatively speaking, Apple is considerably slower than competitors like Microsoft and Google, owned by Alphabet, in integrating generative AI—which may generate responses to textual instructions that resemble human responses into its products.
As part of the agreement, the press release said that Alexander Wong, an expert in artificial intelligence from the University of Waterloo who assisted in growing DarwinAI’s business, became an executive in the corporation’s artificial intelligence group.
As reported by Bloomberg, DarwinAI serves various organizations and has created artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for visually evaluating modules during the manufacturing phase.