📰 Apple has acquired two startups for Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence

1️⃣ TrueMeeting allows users to scan their faces with an iPhone and create an avatar image using AI. The company's official website was shut down in the winter, which hints at the startup's acquisition during that period, although the deal was not officially announced, the information became available from regulatory filings in the EU. TrueMeeting's CommonGround Human AI technology creates a “hyper-realistic digital twin” of the user, which could be implemented in the new version of Persona in visionOS, which was unveiled at WWDC on June 9.

2️⃣ WhyLabs monitors large AI language models and prevents them from hallucinating. It does this by tracking how the neural network's reasoning flow and results “drift” and recording performance degradation. This appears to have been acquired specifically for the development of Apple Intelligence and Apple's upcoming proprietary LLM models. No official announcement has been made about the deal, although the company's website is still operational.

#AppleInc #projects #VisionPro #AppleIntelligence @iPhone