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Comment by walterbell

1 year ago

Apple Intelligence uses Google TPUs instead of GPUs.

That's something not surprising, given JG and Ruoming's Google stint.

Google is going to dominate LLM ushered AI era. Google has been AI first since 2016, they just don't have the opening. Sam, as inapt at engineering, just has no idea how to navigate the delicate biz & eng competitions.

For training, yes, but no indications on inference workloads. Apple has said they would use their own silicon for inference in the cloud.

  • Plus the Apple "Neural Engine" which has shipped on millions of iPhones for local inference.