While Whatsapp is not great, the problem with iMessage is that it is (was?) locked exclusively to the apple platform

Right, but not before they try to fire people again, fafo cycle continues!

For this specific case they want to train local smaller models I think, like we didn’t have that before the llm boom

Just a reminder that the previous article said that they are rehiring them not because humans are better at the job but because they rushed to fire them too fast, without using those people to train the computers first.