Comment by kristianp
7 days ago
Apparently Apple is "in talks" with the PrismML: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/apple-prismml-ai-compression...
7 days ago
Apparently Apple is "in talks" with the PrismML: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/apple-prismml-ai-compression...
Notably, PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi told CNBC this, so it’s either (1) bullshit, or (2) he just ended any chance of a relationship by leaking news of the talks.
The 2000 ATI leak showed up here a few weeks ago.
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2000/08/02/jobs-snubs-at...
Apple would punish him severely unless they cleared it in advance, it might be to their advantage for some reason (negotiating with Google for Gemma rights? idk).
I would be slightly surprised if anything Apple wanted to do with Gemma they couldn't do with Gemini, which they have the right to make various derivatives of.
They could more or less redistribute Gemma as-is in the developer program; they are unlikely to be troubled by any of the licence terms.
Apple is too desperate to be making demands. You confuse the Apple of yesterday and of today. Things change fast and things have changed.
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either way, maybe a portent for the times.
apple’s secrecy agenda has been defeated to an extent by the practicalities of ubiquitous technology?