The cynic (or realist?) in my thinks this abstraction layer is Apple's way of making sure that users give their own Apple Intelligence credit for the underlying LLM functionality, even if another company is actually providing the LLM.

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_the_inflator 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Assembled in Cupertino once more. ;)

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coldtea 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, Apple just designs and writes the SoC, CPU, graphics unit, neural unit, compiler (Swift), OS, graphics layer, 3D API, core libs from graphics to persistence, filesystem, broadband chip, and a few more things besides...

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saagarjha 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Notably good models are not on that list.

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Danox 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AI models in the end are just commodities the computer using public is not going to pay for them directly, in short, they’re not gonna bail out OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic.

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geden 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Neither are other capex heavy items like chip fabs.

	▲	coldtea 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, they also don't mine their own steel and copper. Such mere assemblers!

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coldtea 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, that totally makes them merely assemblers then /s

	▲	bigyabai 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Apple Silicon is broadly unused for LLM training. Arguably, Apple isn't even helping to assemble real-world AI models, just the thin client hardware.

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Gareth321 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is clearly because they plan to monetise AI in the future, and they don't want competition.

	▲	Danox 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have competition, Microsoft and Nvidia, Google and Huawei long term…

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