Despite being reportedly two years behind in AI development, Apple’s deep integration between hardware and software gives it a strong position to catch up. Here's why.

Apple today announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art studio complex in Los Angeles and a series of special programs to ...

Despite being reportedly two years behind in AI development, Apple’s deep integration between hardware and software gives it a strong position to catch up. Here's why.

So even if Apple were two years behind now, that’s absolutely not the same as saying it will take the company two years to catch up with today’s leading-edge AI capabilities.

And yet, they pulled it off. In the past two years, the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro, the Mac Mini, and even the iMac have all been transitioned to Apple Silicon — to great success.

Some Apple employees believe that the company's in-house generative AI technology powering Apple Intelligence is more than two years behind industry leaders, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

That two-year road map has passed, and Apple hasn’t completed the transition quite yet. Here’s what we’re still waiting on. The Apple Silicon transition timeline .