Comment by rvz

15 hours ago

Apple never competed in the "AI race" in the first place, because they already knew they were already at the finish line.

This was really unsurprising [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40278371

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bitpush  12 hours ago

Your linked comment argues the opposite.

> Won't be surprised for the re-introduction of Xserve again but for AI.

This means, Apple is gonna spend a lot of money standing up data centers (CapEx). And the article in question is essentially saying that Apple is smart not to spend any money.

It sounds like there's a bit of wishful thinking on - Whatever Apple is doing is 4D chess. Apple not spending any money - That's genuis. Apple re-introducing Xserve racks - genius.

bigyabai  13 hours ago

> This is an obvious moat for Apple who can offer a cheaper alternative for training, inference AI server farms.

According to Bloomberg, Apple's inference server farms are a flop: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...

  the chips [...] are not powerful enough to run the latest frontier models like Gemini, which the new Siri will be based on