> AI hosting for Apple

Curious to see how long that lasts - YouTube and Google Maps were fairly mainstay apps for iPhones for a while, and eventually Apple cut the Maps cord to do their own thing. I don’t know if that’s from an existential concern of “we need to eventually move Maps in-house”, but given the Google of it all I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple is already at least planning on how to do the same with AI once the bulk of the usage evens out i.e. let someone else worry about it now while also getting a read on what rolling their own would feasibly require.

That’s tough to say. So far, Apple has been very reluctant to invest in the massive infrastructure you need to run large AI models.

But if they are successful in making on-device models that work well, then you don’t really need as much cloud infrastructure.