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By Tuesday morning, however, a number of the billionaire’s posts had been corrected by X’s crowdsourced Community Notes system, Musk’s preferredto the Apple Intelligence models, said Musk’s claim the company will hand data over to OpenAI is misleading as Apple has developed its own AI systems that will run on-device, or locally, and will use private cloud computing or OpenAI that for tasks requiring additional computational power, though the note said this would require “additional confirmation.
Another community note, which are written by users on X and appear when “rated helpful by others,” said Musk’s comment “misrepresents what was actually announced,” as “Apple Intelligence is Apple’s own creation” and access to ChatGPT “is entirely separate, and controlled by the user.”Consumers and analysts expected Apple to finally unveil its AI roadmap at WWDC 2024 after months of viewing the tech titan as a laggard in the AI arms race.