A report from Bloomberg states that Apple has advanced the
internal testing of new generative AI integrations for its Xcode programming
software, and will be making them available to third-party developers this
year.
Additionally, Apple is reported to be exploring generative
AI in consumer-facing products; such as automatic playlists in Apple Music,
slideshows in Keynote, and AI chatbot / search features for Spotlight search.
Apple’s revamped AI-powered code completion tool is similar to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, according to Bloomberg’s report. It applies a large language model (LLM) to predict and complete code strings, as well as generate code to test apps.
Some of Apple’s recent and major accomplishments in the
field of AI research have been the development of an open-source machine
learning framework ‘MLX’ that is designed to train AI models on Apple silicon
chips, a text-to-image editing AI model called MGIE, and an AI animator called
Keyframer.
Apple is expected to introduce more of its AI designs and
developments at the annual WWDC event for developers that is meant to happen
later this year.
