There's been a lot of talk about AI since yesterday following Apple's announcement of for its devices. Apple has collaborated with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT with Siri and to use its AI models to power the writing assistant functionality on its smartphones, notebooks, and tablets. Elon Musk, who wears many different hats including one as the owner of X, naturally had a few things to say about everything that was unveiled yesterday.
He has no love lost for Apple or OpenAI, so his posts on X yesterday were a mix of memes signifying the fall of Apple to questioning its claims of privacy for cloud-based AI processing and highlighting OpenAI's shortcomings. He does have motive to go after them since his many projects include xAI and , which is a competitor for OpenAI's ChatGPT. Musk has time and again made posts on X highlighting how Grok's capabilities and processing abilities are far better than ChatGPT, which burst on the scene a few months ago and has become the poster child for generative AI.
Musk's X can often feel like an echo chamber where many of his likeminded followers agree with what he posts and make predictions about what one of Musk's many companies can do to disrupt the space. He often interacts with those predictions with just enough vagueness that keeps the echo chamber going, giving his followers something to relish. One such prediction came yesterday following Apple's WWDC event when a follower convincingly said they were “calling it” that X will team up w.