Does the iWork suite mean anything to you? If not, know that this is simply the name of Apple's office suite. This is now made up of three different tools: Pages (word processing), Keynote (presentations) and Numbers (spreadsheet). So far, nothing very surprising for an operating system publisher, which already convinces millions of users with macOS. But new features boosted by artificial intelligence could soon appear on these three consumer software…
And for good reason: Apple has just registered the very evocative domain name iwork.ai, even though the pack of the same name has not seen any major news for a while. However, this is not the case for each program independently, since just the update to iOS 17 could have brought changes to the apps in question. These are in fact also available on mobile, just like Microsoft's Office suite or Alphabet's tools with Google Sheets (equivalent to Excel) or Google Slides (alternative to Keynote).
What's new with artificial intelligence?
For the moment, it is impossible to know precisely what Apple is preparing with this domain name registration. Even more so when we know that the Californian company has already granted itself ownership ofhundredsaddresses like this, likeiwork.com,iphone.comor evenibook.comand many other different examples. What's more, we know that the iWork brand is almost no longer used by the company. Perhaps because it has for some time now chosen to free itself from brands beginning with the prefixi, so-called because these have already inspired the competition too much.
Despite everything, we can perhaps look at the announcements ofAlphabetoccurred during the last Google I/O conference to try to guess the future of the iWork suite. Indeed, on the occasion of the famous conference often compared to Apple's WWDC, Sundar Pichai's group announced numerous additions of AI options for its own office suite. Google Slides, for example, now allows you togenerate imageslike DALL-E does, but obviously with a neural engine from Alphabet. With this, the Mountain View spreadsheet has been improved in the same way as the very popular online tool Sheets Formula. Understand that if you are looking for a formula that you do not know, just explain it literally and artificial intelligence will do the rest. Clever!
A ChatGPT competitor from Apple
Finally, let's also mention the case of the new alternative to ChatGPT and others that Apple is developing (in partnership), perhaps to compensate for the glaring lack of performance of the Siri voice assistant.Under the name of Ferret, this solution presents itself as an open source tool primarily dedicated to developers. It is possible to find out more by having a dedicated account, but be aware that only the most seasoned coders are initially expected to join. For the general public, you will probably have to wait many more months. Please note, however, that Ferret was presented in October, even if this date corresponds to a launch almost a year after the GPT-3 interface aimed at democratizing the OpenAI language model.
At the same time, we can also cite the case of a slightly more recent value proposition whose ins and outs remain quite vague, butcould see the light of day with iOS 18. This new version of Apple's operating system for iPhones and iPod touches should be presented no later than next June, during theWorldwide Developer Conferencethat we mentioned previously. The event is usually held at the Steve Jobs Theater, located in the heart of the giant headquarters of the Apple firm: Apple Park. It can accommodate twelve thousand employees, and runs 100% on solar energy, fitting with Cupertino's ambitions to move to zero greenhouse gas emissions.
- Features with artificial intelligence could arrive within the iWork office suite
- iWork includes three software programs: Pages, Numbers and Keynote
- Apple registered the domain nameiWork.ai, this is what suggests that such new developments are coming
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