Subj : Meta Superintelligence Labs ¨, Apple Vision Air ¨, OpenAI's week off ¨ To : All From : TLDR Date : Tue Jul 01 2025 10:46:04 --Fp7TbS3D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Meta Superintelligence Labs will house Meta's various teams working on fo= undation models. 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Apple Weighs Using Anthropi= c or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal (11 minute read)

Apple is considering sidelining its own= in-house models and using AI technology from Anthropic or OpenAI to power = a new version of Siri. It has asked both companies to train versions of the= ir models that could run on Apple's cloud infrastructure for testing. Switc= hing to a third-party provider for Siri would be an acknowledgment that App= le is struggling to compete in generative AI. Apple's investigation into th= ird-party models is at an early stage and the company hasn't made a final d= ecision on using them.
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