According to Bloomberg, the transaction between Apple and OpenAI did not involve any exchange of monetary value.
During the annual developer conference that Apple held not too long ago, the firm made the announcement that it has formed a partnership with OpenAI in order to bring its technology to the iPhone and other products that it manufactures. When a major corporation and a rapidly growing technology company enter into a transaction, it is not difficult to see a substantial amount of money being exchanged both parties. However, a recent report from Bloomberg indicates that nobody in that collaboration was compensated for their work. According to reports, Apple is not paying OpenAI because the company feels that placing its technology in front of hundreds of millions of consumers is equivalent to or even superior to any form of monetary payment.
OpenAI’s GPT-4o model will be utilized by Apple in order to power artificial intelligence workloads on iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. By way of illustration, Siri will make use of ChatGPT’s capabilities if customers ask it to generate suggestions for menus, to summarize articles, or to locate photographs based on a description of what they contain. ChatGPT can also be used by Apple’s writing tools to allow for the creation of stories, as well as the rewriting and proofreading of previously written text. Users will be able to take advantage of these services without having to log in or pay for ChatGPT; however, if they create a Plus account, they will have access to additional benefits that are not available to them.
According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has the potential to obtain financial gain from the transaction by persuading Apple customers to pay twenty dollars per month for ChatGPT Plus. Additionally, if those individuals sign up on an Apple device, the iPhone manufacturer will also receive a fee for their participation. It has been reported by the news organization that Apple plans to enter into revenue-sharing arrangements with its partners in the future in order to increase the amount of money it makes from artificial intelligence. It is hoping to obtain a portion of the revenue that those partners will generate from the monetization of chatbots on Apple’s operating systems, in particular, because it is of the opinion that an increasing number of users would prefer to utilize artificial intelligence rather than search engines. This indicates that it may be able to make less money from its lucrative search arrangement with Google, which has been in place for a long time.
As of yet, Apple has not disclosed its prospective artificial intelligence partners; however, it has been rumored that the company is in discussions with Google to provide Gemini integration to iOS customers as soon as later this year. Additionally, it is apparently in discussions with Anthropic to provide its Claude AI chatbot as an additional alternative.