Apple Acquires Q.ai Startup for "Silent" Voice Input

In its second biggest acquisition ever, Apple has acquired a company called Q.ai that promises to use "facial micromovements" to provide "private answers to silent questions."


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/01/30/apple-acquires-q-ai-startup-for-silent-voice-input

Thanks, I hate it.

Apple was (and is) late to the AI game. But soon, we will all have beautifully-crafted jaw-reading AI running locally on our iPhones, with prompts being sent to a 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model in a glistening homomorphically-encrypted package, fit for processing on Apple’s glorious Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. I’m foaming at the mouth already.

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They can also use another FOSS project and call it a day I guess.

Issue is, they will still need to redo it from the ground up I suppose to assure a bit of security and not just wing it. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: