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0 pointspeppertree1y ago0 comments

I think the biggest announcement was the private compute cloud with Apple Silicon. Apple is building up internal expertise to go after Nvidia.

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dmix1y ago

Can you explain what that means for someone who missed part of the video today?

theshrike791y ago

The Apple Intelligence cloud system uses Apple's own M-series chips, not Nvidia.

ismepornnahi1y ago

Because they will be running inference using much smaller models than GPT 4.

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yborg1y ago

Isn't it also that Nvidia chips are basically unobtainable right now anyway?

solarmist1y ago

Yeah, but Apple wouldn’t care either way. They do things for the principle of it. “We have an ongoing beef with NVIDIA so we’ll build our own ai server farms.”

teruakohatu1y ago

Apple have a long antagonist relationship with NVIDIA. If anything it is holding Apple back because they don’t want to go cap in hand to NVIDIA and say “please sir, can I have some more”.

We see this play out with the ChatGPT integration. Rather than hosting GPT-4o themselves, OpenAI are. Apple is providing NVIDIA powered AI models through a third party, somewhat undermining the privacy first argument.

hmottestad1y ago

Rumours say that Apple has bought a lot of GPUs from Nvidia in the last year or so in order to train their own models.

s3p1y ago

Not really. They use ChatGPT as a last resort for a question that isn't related to the device or an Apple-related interaction. Ex: "Make a recipe out of the foods in this image" versus "how far away is my mom from the lunch spot she told me about". And in that instance they ask the user explicitly whether they want to use ChatGPT.

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