By Sam Boughedda
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will hold an AI summit for employees on the heels of the recent noise surrounding OpenAI's ChatGPT and launches from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL).
Gurman tweeted the news on Monday. It will be Apple's first in-person event since the pandemic began.
It comes after both Google and Microsoft hastened their public events in response to ChatGPT.
Gurman said in his tweet that Apple will hold the in-person event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple HQ, with the event also available to stream for employees who can't make it. The media will not be allowed in, according to Gurman.
"On the heels of OpenAI, ChatGPT noise and Google [and] Microsoft AI launches, Apple is holding its (previously scheduled) annual internal AI summit next week," wrote Gurman. "It's like a WWDC for AI, but only for Apple employees."
Gurman noted that the event will be held similarly to how Apple held media events pre-COVID, speculating that the tech giant could also return to that format for public product launches.
Apple is expected to host an event for its anticipated mixed-reality headset sometime this spring.
There is no confirmation that Apple's reported AI summit has anything to do with ChatGPT, but the company may be looking to react following the recent buzz around the conversational AI tool.