#102a Apple’s AI Revolution: Challenging Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot
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AI BYTE #1 📢: Apple’s AI Revolution: Challenging Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot
⭐ Apple is reportedly nearing the completion of a critical new software tool for app developers.
This tool is part of the next major version of Xcode, Apple’s flagship programming software. The new system will operate similarly to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and use AI to predict and complete blocks of code. This simplifies the programming process for software development, potentially saving time and money.
The company has been working on the tool for the last year and has now expanded testing of the features internally. It has ramped up development ahead of a plan to release it to third-party software makers as early as this year.
Apple is also exploring the use of AI to generate code for testing applications, an often-tedious process. Currently, it is pushing some engineers to try these new AI features internally as part of a “dogfooding” effort.
Apple’s move into AI and large language models (LLMs), the technology behind popular chatbots like ChatGPT, is seen as a broader push. While Apple is playing catch-up with tech peers in this burgeoning market, it has promised to discuss its plans for AI later this year. That announcement could come as soon as June, when the company holds its annual developers conference.
In addition to the AI tool, Apple has made another addition to its growing AI repertoire with the creation of a tool that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to animate static images based on a user’s text prompts.
This innovation, described in a new research paper titled “Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design Using Large Language Models,” is just the latest in a series of AI breakthroughs by Apple.
Apple’s AI plans come a bit late to the party as its rivals continue to embrace the ongoing AI hype, with Microsoft, Samsung, Google, and others launching various generative AI tools in recent months.
But even Apple itself has admitted that it’s taking it slow with generative AI, calling its strategy "deliberate and thoughtful".
With the expected release of this tool, the tech world eagerly awaits the next chapter in the AI rivalry between Apple and Microsoft.