Apple Intelligence and Siri Strategy

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SERP API provides two hundred and fifty free searches per month Go check it out at SRPapPi. com That's SRP SERpapPi d. com Birdie told me this was coming, so that's why I've been holding on releasing the show just a bit today. and Thropic justust released Claud Fable five, what they're calling a safe Mhos class model that it says can't be used for cyber attacks to the public And also Clad Mhos five to trusted organizations ing wred Antropic released two new AI models called Claud Fable five and ClaD Mhos five on Tuesday, which the company says have greater capabilities than the Mhos preview model it released in April to a limited set of tech industry partners. Athropic has said the initial limited release stemmed from concerns that the model's capabilities could be exploited by bad actors to develop hacking tools That could catch defenders off guard Andthropic is currently only releasing Clad Methos five to a limited set of industry partners, many of which received access to Methos preview And the company says it is collaborating with the U.S. government on the rollout Clae Fabable five, which is being publicly released, uses the same underlying model as Methos five, but will have guardrails in place at launch, the company said Tuesday that will block the model from answering many questions related to cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry These requests will instead be rerouted to an older AI model, Claudd Ous four point eight. if anthropics suspects a user is trying to conduct distillation, training a smaller AI model offer larger AI models responses on Claoud Fable five. Those requests will also be rerouted to Cloud Opus four point eight. The company says In an interview with Wired, Anthropics headad of productrouct Management Diane Penn says that the company has been grappling with the question of how to handle Mhos's software vulnerability discovery abilities and other advanced capabilities since before its April release testing and user input since then has helped to hone the strategy We're trying to make improvements in a way that's beneficial, even if we don't have the perfect solution for every use case to start, Penn says out of all of the different approaches, this emerged as the most viable and the best one. We just ended up feeling like this was the best product choice for users to get the maximum value out of Fable five For now, Penn says that the protective mechanism is built to error on the side of caution, meaning some user queries may be routed to less capable AI models, even if they're benign. Over time, Antthropic hopes to make its classifiers more precise, but Penn says this was the only safe way the company could release the model broadly at this time The company said on Tuesday that in addition to offering Claud Methos five to Project Glasswing partners, it is also giving access to quote select biology researchers. and additionally, Anthropic noted in its blog post about Tuesday's launch that it is providing unrestricted versions to those small group of customers until our trusted acccess program is available, hinting at future plans to expand access even more Since the Mhos launch in April, Antthropic has repeatedly emphasized that eventually its competitors in both the private and even open weight spaces will inevitably also offer models with Mhos level capabilities, end quote Anthropic also said that internal and external red team tests of Fable five found no universal jailbreaks using the model It will keep user traffic for thirty days in its archives and records, though, thus aligning with President Trump's recent AI executive order Anthropics says Fable five uses conservative safety classifiers that trigger a fallback to Claud opus four point eight and about five percent of sessions again in areas like cybersecurity And one more important thing, quoting ZDNet An unnamed representative of Vibe Coding platform maker Base forty four said Fable is much deeper and better at one shotting full apps and its tool calling is excellent Gen Spark, which provides an all in one AI workspace A representative there from the company said that Fable came out number one on our evVAves winning head to head against every model we tested. It was significantly stronger on the hardest tasks in the set, UI design and game coding. A representative from e commomerce Marketplace R Kutin said, at the highest effort, Fable reflects on and validates its own work. For us, that's what makes highly autonomous operations possible. The extra thinking pays for itself Speaking of payment Pricing for Fable five and the new Mhos five release is ten dollars per million input tokens and fifty dollars per million output tokens. That's about twice the price of Claude Opus four point eight, and quote So If you thought that tooken sticker shock was bad before, well quoting teech Wrench Many enterprises are growing critical of AI cost after seeing the bills come in or blowing through their yearly AI budgets early. Advanced models like Opus four point eight can exacerbate those issues with advanced reasoning skills that can split a single request into multiple tasks Anthropics said it expects demand for Fable T to be very high and difficult to predict. And indeed, some like shopping rewards platform Racotin might think the upside is worth the price point and quote Now it is OpenAI that has confidentially filed for an IPO, saying it has not decided on timing yet as there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company Qoting CBC. Open Eye CFO Sarah Freyer told CMBC in April that it's good hygiene for a business of open eye size to look and feel and act like a public company, but she wouldn't commit on a specific IPO timeline. Oping Iye said Monday, it hasn't decided on timing. OpanyI also plans to facilitate a tender offer that will allow employees to sell shares at the latest valuation, which was eight hundred fifty two billion dollars post money and alleviate some near term pressure for liquidity, according to a person familiar with the plans who asked not to be named because the details are private The company has been working with banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on the filing. as CMBC previously reported. They' are the two firms listed at the top of SpaceX's filing as well. SpaceX Kicked off a road show last week. Open AI, Anthropic and Google are all named as some of SpaceX's key competitors in AI, according to the filing. A week ago, Anthropic announced its confidential IPO filing. Shortly before that, the company closed a funding round at a nine hundred sixty five billion dollars valuation topping open AI, which was valued at eight hundred fifty two billion dollars in late March Depending on how SpaceX's offering is received, Anthropic and OpenIe could be rushing to beat each other out due to the massive amount of capital they're trying to raise. OpenIe CEO Sam Alton will be under pressure to make his case to investors, particularly around the company's financials OpenAe has raised more than one hundred eighty billion dollars in funding, and it is still burning through cash as it works to secure compute and build out infrastructure to train and run AI models In a blog post on Monday, Altman introduced what he called the third phase of openen AI. and quote Microsoft disabled more than seventy of its own repos on GitHub, including Azure related tools like Azure Functions host after hackers added credential stealing malware to them Coting tech Crenun Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password stealing malware into the code Many of the affected projects relate to Microsoft's Cloud service Azure and other tools used by developers to code with AI development apps such as Cloud code, Gemini's command line interface and VS code According to a security firm, Coudsmith and community driven malware analysis site open source malware, which were some of the first to flag the hack. The malware allowed the hackers to steal the users' passwords and other sensitive credentials when they opened the compromised tools in their AI coding apps. It is not immediately known how many people have been downloading the affected tools. Microsoft confirmed it pulled the repos, as first reported by four hundred four media. Microsoft spokesperson Ben Hope told Techcrunch that the company has temporarily removed some repositories as we investigated potential malicious content Some of these repos have been restored after review, while others may remain offline while work continues. As part of our investigation, we notified a small number of customers who may have pulled down content from the affected repositories We will continue to investigate, and if anything further is identified that requires customer action, we will reach out directly through our established support channels, added Hope Microsoft did not immediately provide the specific number of customers affected when asked by TechCrunch. At least seventy projects belonging to Microsoft have been disabled per a message, loading when trying to access the project's pages on GitHub, a code hosting site that Microsoft owns Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff dude, who a violation of GitHub's terms of service. it reads, and quote AI is uncharted territory, and many leaders are trying to navigate through without a guide to help them. That's why Morning Brew created the intntelligence Shift, a new podcast with PWC. 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Based on what we saw yesterday, Apple is set to win in AI, at least from a consumer perspective I know how crazy this sounds. It's not just that Apple has been viewed as behind in AI for the past few years, it's that they've been more or less a laughing stock, given how they tried to roll out Apple intelligence two years ago and filled to the point of settling lawsuits around false advertising. But if Apple is actually able to roll out what they showcased yesterday, and I'll get to the caveats below There's a reason to believe they can do it this time They're about to infuriate many people and companies across a wide swath of industries. That's because Apple seems on the verge of doing what they always do, watching new products and services come about and then jumping in later with a better user experience to win the day This annoys people because they can't just do that So and so was doing this long ago. first, this was old, boring, lame. They can't keep getting away with this. We saw it all on display in response to the keynote yesterday, and Wall Street seemed to agree with the angry mob sending the stock down in after hours trading I'm here to tell you that none of that matters. Apple Intelligence and the new Siri AI may seem underwhelming to those who live at the bleeding edge of AI, but ninety nine percent of people don't live there. and even more actually don't want to live there, but feel the need to in some way, at least less they feel like they're being left behind in our age of AI. If ChatTPT showed AI to the masses, Apple is set to bring usage mainstream The good news is that increasingly most day to day usage won't require the state of the art. And in fact, it increasingly may prove too expensive to use the state of the art for most tests. Again, Apple's timing could be good here. But we won't know that for sure until Siri AI is out in the wild and competing with, say, Mhos Then again, I'm not sure how much they will actually compete. There will always be the AI power users, of which I'll certainly be one, Most users will not be AI power users. They'll be content to use the default providing the default is good enough Uselling Apple here since it's really about having a good enough base layer for things like world knowledge mixed in with contextual stuff around your personal data that only they can do. It's entirely possible that we see a world where most iPhone users use Siri AI for eighty percent of their AI needs and then pick another model slash service for the other twenty percent Or maybe it's even more granular with two or more other AI services filling in specific niches. Again, we'll see But what I see Based on what I saw yesterday is a world where Apple takes the AI consumer lead in relatively short order Millions of people next year walking around talking to Siri AI, asking her all sorts of things and tasking her with all sorts of things. It's a mixture of power of the default Apple's own superior product instincts, AI seedating the consumer high ground, Google being stretched in a million different directions beyond consumer, and of course helping out Apple here Microsoft, never being good at consumer andthropic not caring about consumer, Amazon not having a smartphone yet, and Meta not having the iPhone After being left for dead NAI, everything is coming up Apple again How annoying for some, they can't keep doing this. AI becomes a new reason to get an iPhone. Forget AIPCs, this is the first true AI device. if it works. and quote And then Ben Thompson quote. There are actually a lot of interesting technical details about how Apple rebuilt Siri, including expanding private Cloud compute to include Nvidia chips running in Google datacenters as well as a twenty billion parameter on device mixture of Ets's model that selects the expert on a per query basis as opposed to on a per token basis so that it can run in an iPhone's limited memory The key strategic takeaway of these implementation details, however, is the centrality of the iPhone. Microsoft's project Solara obviously makes sense for Microsoft given the fact that the company missed out on mobile, It also fits with the infrastructure of AI. which is in the cloud and increasingly about compute happening without a human in the loop Apple in contrast, is heavily incentivized to preserve the iPhone's importance and by extension to focus on use cases organized around human interactions However, it's too simplistic to reduce these approaches to a cynical analysis of incentives. Both make sense in their own right. What makes me intrigued about Project Solara is the fact that Microsoft is positioning it as purely an enterprise play, which is important because an enterprise has context about the work being done, making it more viable to build long running agents, which the enterprise is willing to pay for. That context would be far more difficult to build for consumers given the need to tie together a huge number of services to get a coherent set of data over which to operate. Indeed, the only entities that can probably pull that off are Google and Apple via Android and IiOS respectively, and Google is always going to be focused more on its cloud services as the point of integration instead of the device That leaves Apple as the only company truly, dare I say it, thinking differently. And yes, the iPhone as the true core of Siri, which will work across your devices, but get its differentiated context first and foremost from your iPhone justust so happens to perfectly align with Apple's business model and desire to not spend billions in CapEx. That doesn't mean it's the wrong approach You'll be able to access all of that CapEx that other companies are building on your phone. You'll just have to use an app. If you need to find something personal or work across apps, Siri will be the only one who can pull it off as long as it's not vaporware And it appears the second time might be the charm, end quote Nothing more for you today, talk to you tomorrow