I think Apple has really got ahead of this game: early deals to pay for AI training data/content. I need to do some research but I think Anthropic also does this.
After a year of largely using OpenAI APIs, I am now much more into smaller “open” models for I hope the major contributors like Meta/Facebook are following Apple’s lead. Off topic, but: even finding the smaller “open” models much less capable, they capture my imagination and my personal research time.
Not sure if they’re ahead but I think it was smart to not ship anything LLMlike until the regulations get made first movers test the waters.
Casey Newton has been saying all year that these things will be awesome once we can unleash them on our own corpus of data safely. “Siri” already does a great job digging through my photos and picking the good memories. I can let my camera roll become a visual junk drawer now.
Do the same for my email. Make “Find” the tool we always wanted to be. I don’t care if I’m conflating LLMs/AI with other smart tech.
After a year of largely using OpenAI APIs, I am now much more into smaller “open” models for I hope the major contributors like Meta/Facebook are following Apple’s lead. Off topic, but: even finding the smaller “open” models much less capable, they capture my imagination and my personal research time.