What the Dev?

266: Privacy concerns with Apple Intelligence and Apple's partnership with OpenAI (with Tabnine's Brandon Jung)

In this episode, SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein interviews Brandon Jung, VP of ecosystem and business development for Tabnine about his concerns with Apple's partnership with OpenAI, which was announced alongside Apple Intelligence as a way to pull in real-world knowledge from ChatGPT for questions Apple's own model cannot answer. 

They discuss: 

  • Why it's surprising that Apple decided to partner with OpenAI
  • The lack of transparency into Apple's own model
  • Why open source models are better for innovation