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Apple has significantly increased its expenditure on Apple Intelligence, aiming to introduce new generative AI features later this year, according to CEO Tim Cook.
Increased AI Expenditure Ensures Timely Delivery
It is anticipated that Apple Intelligence will include a slew of new generative artificial intelligence capabilities that are intended to improve the user experience. These features are scheduled to appear in late 2024, when iOS 18.1 will formally roll out to devices that are compatible with it.
Tim Cook, the CEO of the technological giant, disclosed at the business's earnings report for the third quarter of 2024 that the company has been allocating more financial resources in order to guarantee that the artificial intelligence platform would be delivered on time.
Cook discussed Apple's efforts going into overdrive as the company moves forward with the introduction of a wide variety of generative artificial intelligence features later this year. Cook made this statement in an interview with CNBC.
Beta Testers Impressed with AI Capabilities
Those who have access to the beta upgrades for iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia are able to test out those capabilities for themselves, and based on the preliminary findings, they are impressed with what Apple Intelligence is capable of doing.
Cook disclosed that the corporation is increasing the amount of money it is investing in order to guarantee that the development and launch processes are completed on time.
“What we’ve done is we’ve redeployed a lot of people on to AI that were working on other things. From a data center point of view, as you know, we have a hybrid approach. So we both have our own and we partner with people. And so that capex would be in the partners’ financials, and we would be paying expense. Certainly embedded in our results this quarter is an increase year over year in the amount we’re spending for AI and Apple intelligence.”
AI Investment Expected to Total Billions
WCCFTECH elaborates that despite the fact that Cook did not disclose an exact number regarding the amount of investment that was put into Apple Intelligence, it is not going to come as a surprise to hear that the amount totals several billions of dollars.
Furthermore, the executive did not provide any estimation regarding the kind of beneficial influence that artificial intelligence will have on sales, nor did they indicate whether or not the debut of the iPhone 16 will benefit from offering customers generative AI features that are available "out of the box."
