[rwc]

This is such a dramatic turnaround from the way Apple has positioned itself in the last few years you have to really wonder about their confidence level for in-house AI efforts.

An alternative read is that AI in its current form can produce such unpredictable results they're content for now to use Google as a scapegoat for any oddities.

[jxy]

Apple's in-house map stumbled badly at the beginning. Apple has been using Google search since the very beginning. It's reasonable that if we can't run a gpt-3.5 level model on a macbook air for 20 hours without charging, it's much better to use existing infrastructure and existing models.

The most important question is what kind of product Apple is creating.

[jncfhnb]

We can assume the answer is the same as everyone. Trash tier question answering and photo manipulation.