OpenAI has released internal correspondence to refute Apple's allegations in a recent lawsuit, asserting that the tech giant's legal team made significant errors in their initial outreach. The company argues that Apple's claims regarding former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan are based on a miscommunication where lawyers emailed the wrong person and falsely claimed prior discussions.
Apple has introduced a new architecture for its third-generation foundation models (AFM3) that utilizes "Instruction-Following Pruning" to significantly reduce active parameter count. The model is designed to activate approximately 20% of its MLP layers by making routing decisions once per prompt rather than per token.
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets. The filing alleges that the alleged scheme was present at every level of the organization.
Apple is currently in discussions with the startup PrismML regarding technology that compresses artificial intelligence models for deployment on iPhones.
Apple is reportedly planning an M7 Ultra chip that will support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory.