Not so long ago, I can remember how Apple’s “failures” in AI made critics smile. Those smiles now seem to have faded. Instead, Apple is accelerating at speed to make people happy for a while with American AI.
How do we know the company is moving fast? With more than 160,000 direct employees globally and hundreds of thousands more across partner firms, suppliers, and the currently beleaguered App economy, when the ship that is Apple moves in a direction the rumor mill usually indicates the destination. Along those lines, we’ve heard a lot of talk across the last week.
Apple’s top secret AI labs
Apple has created a top secret AI research lab in Zurich, Switzerland. The Financial Times also claims the company has hired hundreds of leading AI researchers during the last couple of years, many of them from Google.
