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Ex-Apple employees new startup wants to bring AI to the desktop - The Verge

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By Alex Heath, a deputy editor and author of the Command Line newsletter. He’s covered the tech industry for over a decade at The Information and other outlets. AI chatbots like ChatGPT have, to date, been fairly impersonal, existing outside of the apps and data that we use every day. A new startup by three ex-Apple employees called Software Applications Incorporated hopes to change that. The company’s CEO, Ari Weinstein, is a repeat founder, having sold his last startup, the iOS automation app Workflow, to Apple in 2017 alongside co-founder and CTO Conrad Kramer. This time, the two have been joined by Kim Beverett, a 10-year Apple vet who was onstage at this year’s WWDC and previously oversaw product management for various teams, including Safari, Messages, FaceTime, and user privacy. In their first interview since leaving Apple to start something new, the trio tells me that their focus is on bringing generative AI to the desktop in a way that “pushes operating systems forward.” While

AI AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All AI Tech Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Tech Apple Apple Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Apple These ex-Apple employees are bringing AI to the desktop After selling Workflow to Apple in 2017, the co-founders are back with a new startup that wants to reimagine how desktop computers work using generative AI. After selling Workflow to Apple in 2017

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