MM1

While the tech industry went gaga for generative artificial intelligence, one giant has held back: Apple. The company has yet to introduce so much as an AI-generated emoji, and according to a New York Times report today and earlier reporting from Bloomberg, it is in preliminary talks with Google about adding the search company’s Gemini AI model to iPhones.Yet a research paper quietly posted online last Friday by Apple engineers suggests that the company is making significant new investments into AI that are already…

Ahead of the announcement of iOS 18, which is expected to be packed with AI features, Apple researchers published a paper highlighting how they’re training a new large language model (LLMs).Called MM1, this LLM can integrate text and visual information as one. The paper was submitted last week and offers an interesting look at the importance of various architectural components and data choices. The researchers say they were able to “demonstrate that for large-scale multimodal pre-training using a careful mix of…