Apple Downplays Concerns Google AI Models Will Undermine Privacy

Apple Inc., which just unveiled a revamped artificial intelligence platform built in part with Google technology, said the new approach will still preserve the company’s privacy safeguards.

Though Apple relies on Google AI models, they’re different than the ones that company uses, software chief Craig Federighi said Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

“We use none of the models that Google deploys to its customers,” he said during a WWDC media event in Cupertino, California. “Your requests are completely private to you. They’re never stored. They’re never accessible to anyone.”

Apple software chief Craig Federighi helped unveil a revamped Siri and other AI features at WWDC.

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