Apple is probably the only technical veteran who is struggling in the race for artificial intelligence. Microsoft-supported open AI from Google’s Gemini or Chat, Apple Intelligence is much limited than its peers. It appears that the company has been forced to see elsewhere.

According to a report by the information, Apple has discussed the possibility of purchasing Mistral AI or Perplexity in a bid to establish a strong leg in AI.

According to the report, Eddie Q was in favor of such acquisition, the head of Apple Services. Q has a long history of cupertino wanting to buy big companies. His previous proposals to get Netflix and Tesla were allegedly rejected by Apple CEO Tim Cook.

In addition to the Eddie Q, the proposal to acquire the AI ​​firm has not gone well with other officials in Cupertino. Rather, they believe that Apple can build a better model on its own.

Mistral AI is a French AI startup focused on open -weight large language models (LLMS), which can be deployed faster than rivals such as Chatgpt. It was formed in 2023 as an European alternative to American AI giants such as openi and anthropic. Mistral AI has Nvidia support. Its latest funding round gave it a price of $ 6 billion.

Perplexity is one of the biggest players in AI. The company is priced around 18 billion dollars under the chairmanship of former Openai Research scientist Arvind Srinivas. It has received funding from Amazon and Nvidia. However, Perplexity has claimed that it is not known about any proposal from Apple.

Apple has a history of avoiding large acquisitions. Taking an AI firm like Perplexity will cost billions of dollars. In the past, the company was defeated $ 3 billion in some of the biggest acquisitions and Intel’s modem business was defeated in $ 1 billion.

Apple AI asks Google to help in race

In the last week, reports have been revealed that Apple Apple is interacting with Google to create a new AI model for Intelligence. This model can be based on Gemini. However, it will run locally on Apple’s server.

Two technical veterans have not addressed such speculation for now. Cupertino also considered using models from Openai or anthropic.

Apple’s Siri still uses Openai’s chatgpt model for some questions. However, the company has not rejected the possibility of allegedly doubled on its AI model.