Apple fears its AI is far behind the curve

Apple is one of the biggest tech companies on the planet. While it has had a hand in artificial intelligence over the years, it’s primarily a hardware company. With the rise in AI technology, Apple is boosting its efforts in that field. However, according to a new report, it seems that Apple fears that its AI is years behind the competition.

Apple is poised to show us what its AI can really do with iOS 18. Well, it will be a gradual process. The company teased some rather stellar features during its latest events. People waiting for Apple Intelligence to fully be realized on their iPhone 16 may need to wait until just a few months before the iPhone 17. It seems that some of Apple Intelligence’s most robust features won’t be coming out until Spring of next year.

However, you won’t need to wait that long to get your first taste of Apple Intelligence. The company confirmed that iOS 18.1 with some Apple Intelligence features is coming next week.

Apple fears that its AI is behind the competition

It should come as no surprise that Apple’s AI is eating the dust of other racers on the track including Google, Meta, and OpenAI. The majority of the company’s money comes from hardware sales. That’s where its focus has been over the years. Then, at the drop of a hat, hardware took a back seat to AI, and the company found itself playing catch-up.

This is not hard to see, thanks to Apple Intelligence. It’s not releasing in its entirety for months and Apple had to partner with OpenAI for advanced models.

Well, Apple Insider Mark Gurman just put into words what everyone is thinking. According to his sources, Apple feels that its AI technology is behind the competition. An internal study at Apple found that ChatGPT is 25% more accurate than Siri and can answer 30% more questions. ChatGPT generates circles around the competition in general, but that’s a pretty big gap in capabilities.

The fact that its AI is behind the competition doesn’t mean that it’s going to be that way forever. The company is hard at work training its AI, so we will see it gaining on the competition as time goes on.