Apple rejects Meta

Apple has no plans to integrate Meta’s Llama chatbot into its devices due to concerns about user privacy security.

Apple did not agree to bring Meta’s Llama chatbot to the iPhone due to security concerns. Photo: Rappler.

According to Bloomberg, Apple rejected Meta’s offer to integrate the social network’s Llama chatbot into the iPhone months ago.

Previously, the Wall Street Journal reported that parent company Facebook held discussions with Apple about integrating Meta’s generative AI model into Apple Intelligence – an artificial intelligence (AI) toolkit that is coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac.

However, according to a source close to the matter, the two did not discuss the integration of Meta’s Llama chatbot in the AI partnership and only held brief talks in March.

This source said that Apple decided not to continue formal discussions with Meta, partly because Facebook’s parent company’s privacy protection measures were not strict enough.

Besides, Apple has spent years criticizing the technology of Meta, formerly Facebook, and integrating the Llama chatbot into the iPhone will be a big change.

Instead, Apple considers ChatGPT a superior product. Google is already a search partner on Apple’s Safari web browser, so a deal with the future Gemini model will be built on this relationship.

In April, Meta announced Llama 3 – the first version of the latest large language model. Meta says that Llama 3 outperforms similar models in terms of critical evaluation criteria, as well as internal tasks such as encryption.

The company’s goal is to make Meta AI “the smartest AI assistant that users can freely use worldwide,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. “With Llama 3, we basically feel that we have reached the finish line,” the CEO is confident.