Comment by halJordan
7 months ago
That rumor was a rumor about apple replacing its search engine. Perplexity has a home grown search engine.
Regardless i dont accept the false constraint the Apple simply must buy a foundation model or whatever that means. Perplexity's "wrapper" does a better job than chatgpt or geminiin its domain.
Apple needs a team that knows how to train an LLM. Why would they need to buy perplexity to use their search engine?
To allow users to query for anything? The index isn't to train and build a model, it's to behave as a search engine for their users. It would (or could) effectively replace Google for Apple users.
Imagine an updated Spotlight that would allow the user to enter any query, obtaining information from the internet, enriched with their local context/data.
LLM Siri is an entirely different concern than Apple potentially acquiring Perplexity. I view them as two wildly different initiatives.