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Hiya. Author here. I'd class some of Apple's main peers as: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, Baidu, and, to a lesser extent, Amazon. These are all large consumer technology companies that are trying to develop quite intimate relationships with consumers, whether through phones or services. Among these companies, Apple's secrecy with regards to AI does make it an apparent outlier. All its peers are, to one extent or another, publishing much more aggressively than it in an apparent attempt to woo some of the most accomplished grad students in the academic community into considering going into industry. (Not mentioned in article, but relevant for this: Samsung has started publishing a few papers, and I'm seeing lots of collaboration between Samsung-affiliated researchers and SK academics pop up on Arxiv. Huawei is coming up as well, via its "Noah's Ark Lab" and some other R&D centers.) Tl,dr; most companies are v private and publishing so openly is the outlier, but among Apple's peers/significant competitors, there is a tendency towards open publication and interaction with the academic community. |