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Is Tim Cook leaving Apple with an AI headache?
The company is not in the race to build the leading large language model. It doesn’t need to.
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Apple has stumbled in the race to roll out AI features, delayed upgrades to its voice assistant and held back from the vast spending on data centres embraced by rivals.
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Howard Yu
To some, Apple is starting to look like a company on the back foot. The appointment of Mr John Ternus, a long-time hardware chief, to CEO only sharpens the question of whether the US$4 trillion (S$5 trillion) company can keep pace in artificial intelligence, as the technology upends the industry.
Mr Ternus prepares to take the reins in September, with his predecessor Tim Cook moving to chair the board.
