Apple used to be at the edge of AI. They shipped Siri before "AI assistant" went mainstream, they were one of the first to ship an actual NPU in consumer hardware and put neural networks into features people use. They were spearheading computational photography. They didn't publish research, they're fucking Apple, but they did do the work.

And then they just... gave up?

I don't know what happened to them. When AI breakthrough happened, I expected them to put up a fight. They never did.