Comment by pprotas
14 hours ago
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.
Assembled in Cupertino once more. ;)
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...
Notably good models are not on that list.
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This is clearly because they plan to monetise AI in the future, and they don't want competition.
They have competition, Microsoft and Nvidia, Google and Huawei long term…