While (presumably) no money was exchanged, Apple and OpenAI entered a contractual agreement, and apparently OpenAI believes that Apple hasn’t met its contractual obligations.
I can only see the first couple of paragraphs, but it's OpenAI following in the footsteps of every other company that doesn't have a viable product: litigation.
I lol’d at this because I also didn’t pay for access. But… aren’t we all just hypocrites and kind of jerks to not give even a few dollars to people out there doing reporting and providing us with information? “Ads and tracking are bad, boo! Pay $5 for a subscription — hell no!”
I keep hoping that Apple is going to pull out some sort of local LLM you run on your larger/more capable Mac hardware and then has a slick interface for control from your iPhone and iPad. I think/hope they've realized that using ChatGPT to create slop content isn't really the best use of AI, nor is it what Apple users actually care about.
The reactive rather than proactive strategy circa 23-24 is now telling. The market/tech zeitgeist forced their hand into producing the flop Apple Intelligence and partnership with OpenAI. Their leaders were caught sleeping at the wheel, particularly ineffective was John Gianneadrea (who was subsequently forced out).
In addition, they have lost talent in consumer devices to OpenAI, though it remains to be seen whether they themselves can produce something better than Humane (also ex-Apple folks)
No doubt Apple is working on something in the background, and there are sparks of hope for them in the ML community with Local LLMs on Apple Silicon.
If I’m reading this correctly, OpenAI is upset because Apple hasn’t made their features visible enough yet.
Which seems like a bonkers reason to try and sue, and one which could backfire spectacularly on them, if Apple sends people into court to testify under oath that OpenAI’s features didn’t ship because they didn’t meet quality bars.
(Also, between this and the “please try Enterprise Codex, we’ll give you two months of free credits” announcement from a couple days ago, there’s a real whiff of desperation coming from OpenAI lately. They must really be feeling the heat from Anthropic)
The article makes it sound like OpenAI is really entitled in this one. Also legal action is obviously going to be a strong signal of OpenAI's friendliness /s.
https://archive.is/Ingcu
What fight? OpenAI is getting nothing from Apple just like Bloomberg is not getting any money for me to read their article.
While (presumably) no money was exchanged, Apple and OpenAI entered a contractual agreement, and apparently OpenAI believes that Apple hasn’t met its contractual obligations.
I can only see the first couple of paragraphs, but it's OpenAI following in the footsteps of every other company that doesn't have a viable product: litigation.
I lol’d at this because I also didn’t pay for access. But… aren’t we all just hypocrites and kind of jerks to not give even a few dollars to people out there doing reporting and providing us with information? “Ads and tracking are bad, boo! Pay $5 for a subscription — hell no!”
[delayed]
It sounds like Apple is re-learning the lesson that relying on a 3rd party can be a liability.
Pretty sure Apple can survive a legal war like this. On the other hand, it sounds like OpenAI is punching above its weight.
Now they can, 30 years ago not really.
Ofc, they were practically dying 30 years ago. But I can't really see why that's is relevant here.
It sounds more like OpenAI has learned a lesson here.
I keep hoping that Apple is going to pull out some sort of local LLM you run on your larger/more capable Mac hardware and then has a slick interface for control from your iPhone and iPad. I think/hope they've realized that using ChatGPT to create slop content isn't really the best use of AI, nor is it what Apple users actually care about.
This closes a very painful chapter for Apple.
The reactive rather than proactive strategy circa 23-24 is now telling. The market/tech zeitgeist forced their hand into producing the flop Apple Intelligence and partnership with OpenAI. Their leaders were caught sleeping at the wheel, particularly ineffective was John Gianneadrea (who was subsequently forced out).
In addition, they have lost talent in consumer devices to OpenAI, though it remains to be seen whether they themselves can produce something better than Humane (also ex-Apple folks)
No doubt Apple is working on something in the background, and there are sparks of hope for them in the ML community with Local LLMs on Apple Silicon.
If I’m reading this correctly, OpenAI is upset because Apple hasn’t made their features visible enough yet.
Which seems like a bonkers reason to try and sue, and one which could backfire spectacularly on them, if Apple sends people into court to testify under oath that OpenAI’s features didn’t ship because they didn’t meet quality bars.
(Also, between this and the “please try Enterprise Codex, we’ll give you two months of free credits” announcement from a couple days ago, there’s a real whiff of desperation coming from OpenAI lately. They must really be feeling the heat from Anthropic)
Also, discovery on the OpenAI side seems like it would be especially juicy.
I am dubious that this is anything other than a marketing/bluster/distraction tactic from OpenAI though.
I think they're feeling the heat from their promised IPO and having to file a S1.
Pretty much this is the reason.
Our country can't make good movies or TV anymore so bring on the courthouse drama
The article makes it sound like OpenAI is really entitled in this one. Also legal action is obviously going to be a strong signal of OpenAI's friendliness /s.