She should be the future of AI at Apple – and her company, Apple’s next acquisition

Apple has a major artificial intelligence opportunity before it that the company could potentially address in one multibillion-dollar transaction. If this startup founder is able to productize AI, finally fix Siri, and unlock a wealth of new revenue streams for Apple, I would argue that she might also be a future Apple CEO candidate someday. Apple’s position in the AI race is rather undefined. The company’s hybrid strategy includes serving as a platform where frontier AI products operate while developing its own AI consumer features within the Apple Intelligence suite. Apple may charge rent to AI providers who want to live on the iPhone, but Apple’s current strategy does not include developing AI technology as a service that it can sell to the enterprise, education, or directly to consumers. Apple is best when the company sticks to what it’s good at, but there’s no reason a company as integral to computing as Apple couldn’t be good at serving AI solutions that appeal to privacy-mind ... Read full article.