Levie: AI poses no threat to Apple and reinforces platform dominance
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Aaron Levie is the co-founder and CEO of Box. He discusses Apple's defensive positioning regarding generative AI software running on iOS devices.
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“I don't think Apple is, is immediately threatened, threatened by AI. It literally, most of my AI usage is on an Apple product that I have often paid money to Apple to be able to use. So, so like, if I, so like, just like on the most immediate basis, all of my usage of AI Is, is, is not threatening to anything that Apple does and is purely contributing even more to their sort of, their platform dominance.”
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