Apple acquires two firms to improve Apple Intelligence, Apple Vision Pro

Apple has quietly acquired two additional companies, gaining technology and talent likely contributing to Apple Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence. While Apple regularly acquires firms, typically making several purchases annually, its recent focus has been on AI companies. As first reported by MacGeneration, these latest acquisitions further bolster Apple’s AI capabilities.
William Gallagher for AppleInsider:
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One of them is TrueMeeting, which lets users scan their faces with their iPhones and produce an AI avatar image. The company’s official site has been removed, but TrueMeeting claimed to make a “hyper-realistic digital twin” of the user.
TrueMeeting is most likely to have been officially acquired during late 2024 — and by June 2025, visionOS 26 was showing a much more natural Persona in the Apple Vision Pro headset. Apple’s Personas feature was already being improved, so it can’t be proved that TrueMeeting has had an influence yet, but it appears so.
Around the same time, Apple also bought WhyLabs, which is concerned with monitoring AI large language models and, ultimately, preventing hallucinations.
Beyond that, it aims to offer blocking of security issues such as malicious misuse of generative AI such as Apple Intelligence. In a promo video, it gives the example of a customer service chatbot disclosing a user’s delivery address, for instance, and how with WhyLabs that data would be redacted.

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MacDailyNews Take: As per allowing users to scan their faces with their iPhones to produce an AI avatars:

Why can’t #Apple use the iPhone's front camera + Machine Learning to just automatically make the best #Memoji possible? Seems like an obvious feature we should have by now. pic.twitter.com/x8EpoaRhlc
— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) October 8, 2021

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