Apple's LLM reportedly outperforms GPT-4, but Sam Altman already admitted it "kind of sucks" as OpenAI gets ready to unveil a new model that's "really good, like materially better"

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What you need to know

• Apple is reportedly developing a LLM dubbed Reference Resolution As Language Modeling (ReALM) that will enhance Siri's capabilities and allow it to understand context in a conversation and even process onscreen content.
• According to benchmarks shared by researchers, Apple's smallest model shares similar performance stats as OpenAI's GPT-4, whereas its largest models outperform it entirely.
• It's unclear when the models will ship, whether with the iOS 18 update or new lineup of iPhones.