{"id":254116,"date":"2025-11-01T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254116\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:01:16","slug":"tim-cook-says-apple-is-open-to-ma-on-the-ai-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254116\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Cook says Apple is open to M&A on the AI front"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled to investors the company is still open to acquisitions and partnerships to move things forward on the AI front. <\/p>\n

The comments were made this week during the company\u2019s Q4 2025 earnings call. The exec also offered a brief update about Apple\u2019s next-generation, AI-powered Siri, saying the service was still on track to launch in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re making good progress on it, and as we\u2019ve shared, we expect to release it next year,\u201d Cook said during his opening remarks. <\/p>\n

One analyst on the call also asked Cook if Apple was still pursuing a three-pronged approach when it came to the development of its personalized AI \u2014 meaning a combination of in-house Apple foundation models, partnerships with third-party LLM providers, and acquisitions. <\/p>\n

Cook responded that Apple was still open to the latter, noting the company continually surveils the market on M&A and is \u201copen to pursuing M&A if we think that it will advance our roadmap.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a pre-earnings interview with CNBC<\/a>, Cook noted that Apple was preparing to announce more AI partnerships like the one it has with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Siri and Apple Intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur intention is to integrate with more people over time,\u201d Cook told the outlet.<\/p>\n

On the earnings call, Cook also talked about how Apple creates foundation models, ships them on devices, and uses them in Private Cloud Compute<\/a>, its cloud intelligence system designed specifically for private AI processing.<\/p>\n

Cook shared later in the call that Apple is already using its Private Cloud Compute technology for a number of Siri queries and is continuing to build out that infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, the manufacturing plant that makes the servers used for Apple Intelligence just started manufacturing in Houston a few weeks ago, and we\u2019ve got a ramp planned there for use in our data centers. And, you know, it\u2019s robust,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Cook additionally suggested that AI was a factor in consumers\u2019 decision-making process when it comes to selecting a new smartphone. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would say that Apple Intelligence is a factor, and we\u2019re very bullish on it becoming a greater factor,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled to investors the company is still open to acquisitions and partnerships to move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,1572,31108,276,277,49,48,32363,61],"class_list":["post-254116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-apple-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-siri","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}