How does Apple do it, if anyone knows? Apple is so loathe to keep their potential product plans hidden that AAPL employees aren’t even allowed to have GitHub accounts without mgr approval… but they have to be employing serious researchers, but they’ll never get to publish on volition.
They don't seem to be on the forefront of the AI train at all. They haven't been building AI products the way Google and Microsoft have been. Siri has been stuck for a long time.
When I think of Apple, I think of a lot of things, but AI is not on that list.
Apple does publish some stuff. But anyway it's a balance between publishing and shipping products. The researcher wants to get some credit for his/her work. If you ship a lot of products he can put his/her name on then publishing research isn't quite as important and vice versa.