Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI Startup Perplexity

Re:Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI... by readthenotes1 on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:32AM (#44335074)

As an acquihire? I'm not clear what distinguishes perplexity/sonar from the others. Wouldn't Anthropic be a better horse right now?

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Re:Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI... by akmarinov on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:55AM (#44335211)

Isn’t Anthropic owned by Amazon? They likely won’t want to sell their horse in the AI race

Also Anthropic is on a roll at the moment, Apple would just kill it

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Re:Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI... by JumpCrisscross on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:04AM (#44335282)

> Isn’t Anthropic owned by Amazon?

No. Amazon’s relationship with Anthropic [1] is a less-extreme version of OpenAI’s with Microsoft.

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Re:Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI... by fakedang on Saturday June 21, 2025 @06:14AM (#44336258)

For starters, it's collaborative lol. Compared to Altman trying to pull a fast one on Nadella.

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Re:Apple Executives Have Held Internal Talks About Buying AI... by throwaway_1237 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @01:21AM (#44343931)

Apple should absolutely acquire anthropic.

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