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- Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) met with former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati to discuss a deal for her new company, Thinking Machines Lab, Bloomberg reported.
- The talks never progressed to an advanced stage, the news outlet added. Despite the lack of a deal with Apple, Thinking Machines Lab recently raised $2B at a $10B valuation, according to the Financial Times. In April, it was reported that Thinking Machines Lab was in the process of raising $2B in funding.
- The news comes as Apple has also internally discussed acquiring or partnering with generative artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, said last month that the company was exploring the option of adding artificial intelligence search options to its Safari web browser.
- Cue, who made the comments at Google’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) antitrust trial, added that Perplexity AI and Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, could be options. Cue said that Apple has been “pretty impressed with what Perplexity has done so we’ve started some discussions.”
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