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Time of India
19-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
It may not all be looking well for Apple's AI ambitions
Seven years after poached Google's AI chief John Giannandrea to revitalize its artificial intelligence efforts, the iPhone maker finds itself increasingly behind competitors in the AI race, with delayed features, internal upheaval, and mounting concerns about its future in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The company's flagship AI initiative, Apple Intelligence, was promised to transform Siri into a ChatGPT-like assistant but has repeatedly failed to deliver. Features showcased at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference remain buggy or non-functional, with the upgraded Siri delayed indefinitely after internal testing revealed fundamental problems. Leadership shuffles amidst internal struggles Bloomberg reports that John Giannandrea, hired from Google in 2018 to lead Apple's AI transformation, has been stripped of product development control this spring. CEO Tim Cook reportedly lost faith in Giannandrea's execution abilities, transferring Siri development to Vision Pro head Mike Rockwell under software chief Craig Federighi. "This is a crisis," one senior AI team member told Bloomberg Businessweek reporters Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett. "It's been sinking for a long time," another team member added, comparing the effort to a foundering ship. The leadership changes come as Apple faces mounting pressure to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT, which blindsided the company in 2022. Internal data described to Bloomberg shows Apple's chatbot technology remains at least 25% less accurate than ChatGPT at handling most queries. Technical problems plague Siri and Apple Intelligence despite major investment Apple's technical challenges run deeper than surface-level delays. Engineers report that the company essentially split Siri's infrastructure in half, creating integration issues that have proven difficult to resolve. "There are hundreds of bugs right now," one Siri team member revealed. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now "It's whack-a-mole. You fix one issue, and three more crop up." The company's conservative approach to acquiring graphics processing units (GPUs) has also backfired, with competitors like Amazon and Microsoft securing much of the world's supply. Apple's commitment to user privacy, while admirable, has further hindered AI development by limiting researchers' access to the vast amounts of data needed to train competitive models. The future seems uncertain for Apple's AI ambitions Senior executives worry that Apple's AI struggles threaten its position across multiple product lines. Eddy Cue, Apple's services chief, has warned colleagues that the company risks becoming the Nokia of the smartphone era if it cannot master AI technology. The company now plans to focus on upgrading existing Apple Intelligence capabilities rather than revolutionary new features for the next iOS version. Sources indicate Apple is preparing to separate its AI branding from Siri, acknowledging the voice assistant's damaged reputation. Despite the setbacks, some remain optimistic. Original Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus believes Apple still has advantages, noting that "all of the foundational model companies have no idea what an assistant is" while Apple has worked on the concept since 2010. However, with European regulations potentially forcing Apple to allow third-party voice assistants as defaults, the company faces an unprecedented challenge to its ecosystem control just as AI reshapes how users interact with technology.
The Star
06-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
IBM CEO makes play for AI market and more US investment
FILE PHOTO: Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM, speaks during a meeting of the Economic Club of New York in New York City, U.S., October 21, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) -IBM on Tuesday made a play for more sales in the crowded artificial intelligence field, touting tools that could help customers manage a fleet of AI agents for their key business applications. In an interview, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said he saw an opening to provide software that integrates customers' AI agents from other providers -- among them Salesforce, Workday and Adobe -- and lets them build their own agents for untapped use cases, with IBM's help. "We help our clients integrate. We want to meet them where they are," he said, ahead of IBM's annual Think conference sessions on Tuesday. IBM's tools to help customers create their own agents, a process it said would take under five minutes, draw on the IBM Granite family of AI models, as well as alternatives from Meta Platforms and Mistral, Krishna said. Krishna said that customer interest in using different AI models for different tasks would build demand for IBM, which last month reported that it has built a $6 billion "book of business" on ChatGPT-like generative AI. A small cloud provider relative to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, IBM has tailored its tech to clients wanting multiple clouds or their own infrastructure to manage their data. "All of these capabilities will only accelerate that rate of growth on those numbers," he said of IBM's new tools. IBM also announced in April that over the next five years, it would invest $150 billion in the United States, where it has manufactured mainframe computers for more than 60 years. It will make quantum computers in the United States as well, Krishna said. "Between mainframe, artificial intelligence and quantum computing, we think there's going to be a very healthy market that behooves us to invest and lean in," he said. Krishna added that the technology focus and reduction in regulations from President Donald Trump's administration would set the economy up for growth. (Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
CNA
06-05-2025
- Business
- CNA
IBM CEO makes play for AI market and more US investment
IBM on Tuesday made a play for more sales in the crowded artificial intelligence field, touting tools that could help customers manage a fleet of AI agents for their key business applications. In an interview, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said he saw an opening to provide software that integrates customers' AI agents from other providers - among them Salesforce, Workday and Adobe - and lets them build their own agents for untapped use cases, with IBM's help. "We help our clients integrate. We want to meet them where they are," he said, ahead of IBM's annual Think conference sessions on Tuesday. IBM's tools to help customers create their own agents, a process it said would take under five minutes, draw on the IBM Granite family of AI models, as well as alternatives from Meta Platforms and Mistral, Krishna said. Krishna said that customer interest in using different AI models for different tasks would build demand for IBM, which last month reported that it has built a $6 billion "book of business" on ChatGPT-like generative AI. A small cloud provider relative to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, IBM has tailored its tech to clients wanting multiple clouds or their own infrastructure to manage their data. "All of these capabilities will only accelerate that rate of growth on those numbers," he said of IBM's new tools. IBM also announced in April that over the next five years, it would invest $150 billion in the United States, where it has manufactured mainframe computers for more than 60 years. It will make quantum computers in the United States as well, Krishna said. "Between mainframe, artificial intelligence and quantum computing, we think there's going to be a very healthy market that behooves us to invest and lean in," he said. Krishna added that the technology focus and reduction in regulations from President Donald Trump's administration would set the economy up for growth.
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
IBM CEO makes play for AI market and more US investment
(Reuters) -IBM on Tuesday made a play for more sales in the crowded artificial intelligence field, touting tools that could help customers manage a fleet of AI agents for their key business applications. In an interview, Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said he saw an opening to provide software that integrates customers' AI agents from other providers -- among them Salesforce, Workday and Adobe -- and lets them build their own agents for untapped use cases, with IBM's help. "We help our clients integrate. We want to meet them where they are," he said, ahead of IBM's annual Think conference sessions on Tuesday. IBM's tools to help customers create their own agents, a process it said would take under five minutes, draw on the IBM Granite family of AI models, as well as alternatives from Meta Platforms and Mistral, Krishna said. Krishna said that customer interest in using different AI models for different tasks would build demand for IBM, which last month reported that it has built a $6 billion "book of business" on ChatGPT-like generative AI. A small cloud provider relative to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, IBM has tailored its tech to clients wanting multiple clouds or their own infrastructure to manage their data. "All of these capabilities will only accelerate that rate of growth on those numbers," he said of IBM's new tools. IBM also announced in April that over the next five years, it would invest $150 billion in the United States, where it has manufactured mainframe computers for more than 60 years. It will make quantum computers in the United States as well, Krishna said. "Between mainframe, artificial intelligence and quantum computing, we think there's going to be a very healthy market that behooves us to invest and lean in," he said. Krishna added that the technology focus and reduction in regulations from President Donald Trump's administration would set the economy up for growth. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Reuters
06-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
IBM CEO makes play for AI market and more US investment
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