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Apple

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. Its hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal computer, the iPod portable media player, the Apple Watch smartwatch, the Apple TV digital media player, the AirPods wireless earbuds, the AirPods Max headphones, and the HomePod smart speaker line. Apple's software includes iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems, the iTunes media player, the Safari web browser, the Shazam music identifier, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites, as well as professional applications like Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro, and Xcode. Its online services include the iTunes Store, the iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, iMessage, and iCloud. Other services include Apple Store, Genius Bar, AppleCare, Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, and Apple Card.
Wikipedia, retrieved 2021-03-18
CountryUnited States
SectorTechnology Equipment
Websitehttp://www.apple.com

Publications

Between 2015 and 2025, Apple researchers released530 AI research articles
  • #29
    in PARAT for number of AI research articles
  • 58.57
    citations per AI article on average (#59 in PARAT, #29 in the S&P 500)
  • 104
    highly cited articles (#24 in PARAT, #10 in the S&P 500)
  • +4.4%
    growth in Apple's public AI research (20202023)
  • 143
    articles at top AI conferences (#22 in PARAT, #10 in the S&P 500)
  • 37.2%
    of Apple's total public research was AI-focused

Apple's top AI research topics

Subfield
Articles
Citations per article
Growth (20202023)
CV publications144105.629.44
NLP publications15353.67.14
Robotics publications3851.236.71
AI safety publications348148.89
Large language model publications12761.445.55

Patents

Between 2015 and 2025, Apple filed836 AI-related patents
  • #37
    in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
  • 15%
    growth in Apple's AI-related patent filing (20172020)
  • 490
    AI-related patents were granted to Apple (20172020)
  • 3.7%
    of Apple's filed patents were AI-related

Top AI application areas across Apple's filed patents

Subfield
Patents filed
Growth (20172020)
Computer vision patents21127.93%
Analytics and algorithms patents1076.23%
Speech processing patents79-18.17%
Measuring and testing patents67-17.94%
Control patents45-10.19%

Top use cases across Apple's filed AI patents

Subfield
Patents filed
Growth (20172020)
Personal devices and computing patents41714.35%
Telecommunications patents27027.81%
Life sciences patents78280.52%
Transportation patents45-65.48%
Security patents44-6.36%

Workforce

3,733
AI jobs
According to our data, Apple currently employs about 3,733 AI workers (#10 rank in PARAT, #8 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
37,701
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Apple currently employs about 37,701 Tech Team 1 workers (#9 rank in PARAT, #8 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.
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