Apple and Google Partner on AI to Bring New Features to Billions of Devices
• Apple researchers have developed a new multimodal AI system called MM1 that can interpret and generate text, images and other data • Apple is expected to unveil new AI features at its developer conference in June • Apple may license Google's Gemini AI engine for iOS and other products, showing it's serious about AI • A Google partnership would give Apple access to nearly 2 billion devices to deploy AI features • The deal validates Google's generative AI capabilities against rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI