Apple testing platforms to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT

Apple is working on artificial intelligence (AI) offerings similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard, Bloomberg News has reported, sending its shares up as much as 2 percent to a record high. The iPhone maker has built its own framework, known as Ajax, to create large language models (LLMs) and is also testing a chatbot that some engineers call "Apple GPT", the report said on Wednesday, quoting people with knowledge of the matter. The company did not respond to a request for comment from the Reuters news agency. Apple has so far held back from any big moves in AI and even avoided mentioning the buzzword at its developer conference in June – in stark contrast to other tech giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft, which have made bold moves to incorporate the breakthrough technology. Shares of Microsoft, Nvidia and Alphabet dropped more than 1 percent after the report.