From The Information:

In mid-2023, some employees of Apple’s system intelligence and machine learning team, which implements features like computer vision, text analysis and natural language in Apple’s software products, met with Altman and other members of OpenAI. While it’s not clear what they discussed, that same year Apple signed a deal with OpenAI to give Apple employees access to the startup’s conversational AI through application programming interfaces, or APIs, for internal tests.

If they were experimenting with the API a full year ago, we might see more at WWDC than I was expecting.

@manton I really hope their ventures into OpenAI come with some type of reassurance. Like their own servers hosting it with data privacy put first. Or the ability to opt-out entirely. If the built-in apps start leveraging OpenAI servers with no recourse I'll be using Linux. :/

@manton @jmanes In typical Apple fashion, they have been doing some interesting things with powering their data centers:

The Little Secrets Behind Apple’s Green Data Centers

@fgtech This doesn’t directly address the question, of course, but they have been doing some quiet work on data centers.

@fgtech @jmanes Very interesting. I wonder if OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft was also appealing to Apple, because Microsoft says their data servers will be 100% renewable next year.