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Apple Makes Changes to AI Team to Catch Up in the AI Race 💥
Inside Anthropic's Race to Build a Smarter Claude and Human-Level AI
Gina Acosta
January 25, 2025
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Apple had a late start in artificial intelligence, with a lukewarm reception of its Apple Intelligence features. The company is now taking action to catch up to competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Chart of the week: The Top 25 Countries With the Most Data Centers
Apple Shakes Up AI Leadership to Strengthen Siri and AI Development
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Chart of the week
The Top 25 Countries With the Most Data Centers
This graphic shows the number of data centers in each country as of March 2024, based on Cloudscene data from Statista.
The U.S. is the clear leader when it comes to computing, with the country’s massive tech conglomerates (e.g., Microsoft, Amazon) having invested billions in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence.
AI News
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Apple Shakes Up AI Leadership to Strengthen Siri and AI Development
Apple is making moves to strengthen its AI and Siri efforts. The company has reassigned long-time executive Kim Vorrath, known for her work on the original iPhone software and Vision Pro, to its AI and machine learning division
Details:
Vorrath is joining as a 'top deputy' to AI boss John Giannandrea, according to Bloomberg.
Apple’s AI team will focus on revamping the underlying infrastructure of Siri and improving the company’s in-house AI models to eventually make Apple a leader in AI.
The news comes shortly after the current version of Siri faced criticism for not understanding requests and failing to execute simple commands.
The move could also signal that AI is now more important to Apple than the Vision Pro.
This leadership shift signals Apple’s commitment to intensifying its focus on AI, an area where it lags behind competitors like OpenAI and Google, despite announcing its AI and Apple Intelligence initiatives at last year’s WWDC.
Resources
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👀 AIthenticate.org: Achieve greater compliance regarding the AI regulations and ensure transparency for your users.
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Video of the week
Inside Anthropic's Race to Build a Smarter Claude and Human-Level AI
An interview with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, that covers a wide range of topics.
Amodei discusses the work being done on Claude, his vision for the future of AI, how he believes AI will revolutionize the way we work and live, the potential risks and benefits, and how we can ensure AI is used for good.
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