On June 10, local time, Apple announced a partnership with OpenAI. Apple said that Siri (voice assistant) on various Apple platforms and Writing Tools (writing tools) available throughout the system are integrated with ChatGPT functions, allowing users to directly use ChatGPT's expertise, including its ability to understand images and documents. #内容挖矿

Apple said that users can call ChatGPT directly in the system, "as long as you agree, and there is no need to create an account, and existing accounts can be associated."

Although Apple emphasized that Apple Intelligence has been designed with user privacy in mind, Musk scoffed at this.

It's patently absurd that Apple isn't smart enough to develop its own AI but can afford to ensure that OpenAI will protect your security and privacy.

Once your data is handed over to OpenAI, Apple has no idea what will happen in the future. They are completely betraying their users by doing this.

If Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, it will be an unacceptable compromise of security. I will ban Apple devices from my companies and visitors will be required to check their Apple devices at the door.

Where does Musk's anger come from?

A Silicon Valley AI feud is unfolding between Musk and OpenAI.

OpenAI was originally a non-profit organization and was founded in late 2015 by Silicon Valley technology tycoons including Musk, Sam Altman, president of the US startup incubator Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel, co-founder of the global online payment platform PayPal.

In 2018, OpenAI posted on social media that Musk would leave the organization's board of directors but would continue to provide funding and advice. "As Tesla focuses more on artificial intelligence, this move will avoid possible conflicts of interest for Musk."

Subsequently, Musk's "grudge" with OpenAI mainly focused on the two aspects of "open source" and "profitability".

On March 1 this year, Musk submitted a 46-page lawsuit report to the San Francisco court, officially suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, and OpenAI's co-founder and president Greg Brockman. In Musk's lawsuit, he focused on the founding agreement signed by OpenAI and him that year. According to the agreement, OpenAI will be a non-profit organization aimed at developing AGI for the benefit of mankind, and is not suitable for for-profit companies that pursue maximizing shareholder profits. At the same time, it will be open source, only balancing security considerations, and will not close and keep its technology confidential for proprietary commercial reasons. But judging from the current development of OpenAI, it has not only changed from open source AI to closed source AI, but also from a non-profit organization to a company with a valuation of tens of billions, and has been helping Microsoft expand its revenue.

A few days later, OpenAI posted on its official website that its mission is to ensure that AGI can benefit all of humanity and refuted all of Musk's accusations. OpenAI emphasized, "We provide a wide range of access to today's most powerful AI, including a free version that is used by hundreds of millions of people every day."

It is worth noting that OpenAI not only publicly disclosed the relationship between OpenAI and Musk on its official website, but also exposed four emails between Musk and three important founders of OpenAI. The content of the letters shows that the resources required to build AGI far exceed the initial imagination. Musk once agreed that OpenAI should establish a for-profit organization, which is not completely open. The letter said, "We and Musk both recognize that a for-profit entity is necessary to obtain these resources."

Industry insiders pointed out that the reason for Musk's breakup with OpenAI may be a proposal that the two sides failed to reach a consensus on: in early February 2018, Musk proposed that OpenAI should "attach to Tesla's cash cow" and "joining Tesla is the only way to even compete with Google", but the OpenAI team rejected this idea. Some industry insiders also pointed out that at that time, Altman had been promoted to the actual leader of OpenAI, established a for-profit department that could raise equity funds, and obtained investment from companies such as Microsoft.

Analysts say that behind the protracted "war" between Musk and OpenAI is the increasingly fierce competition in artificial intelligence.

After failing to gain control of OpenAI, Musk is working non-stop to develop his own artificial intelligence projects. On May 27 this year, Musk announced that xAI, an artificial intelligence company founded in July last year, had completed its B round of financing with an amount of up to $6 billion. The company is currently valued at about $18 billion. It is reported that the funds from this round of financing will be used to bring xAI's first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate the research and development of future technologies. It is reported that the company will build a "computing super factory" by next fall and use more than 100,000 dedicated chips for training. #BTC