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Apple does not have the capability to train a LLM currently.
Apple has shown time and time again that they have the human capital and money to tackle massive projects discretely. It's already fairly well known that Apple's NLP experts from Siri have been reallocated to some secret project. They are more than capable of training an LLM but given their track record in other segments they probably want to wait for the technology to become more "polished" and give less hallucinate…
They will soon be able to train an LLM because it simply has become commoditized, but they just are not a major player in this space at all.