Comment by rogerkirkness
7 days ago
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).
7 days ago
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.
You’re right, Apple only has 68 billion dollars in cash, up 40% since last year. Definitely on their last legs.
Free cash? Crazy. I think I can live with the interest of that in the bank.
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I remember the infographics of 5-10 years ago. They had 200 billion. What happened? Sinking ship?
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> Apple is too desperate to be making demands
They don't give a F about AI or any new AI model that was announced this morning. Wasn't there news a while ago about them buying Perplexity?
They didn't buy Perplexity and it indeed rather seems like Perplexity may have damaged the deal by blurting.
Whether things are different now I don't know, but Prism would potentially be a good acquisition.
This is not the first Bonsai model from Prism using this technology, and they've also applied this technology to an image model.
The model aspect isn't that significant (even in this news), because it is Qwen, under the hood. The encoding efficiency is.
Prism's technology might be valuable, and their team could well be.
And they very evidently do care a lot about efficient on-device AI; they just don't care about developing frontier cloud models.
They do, they are low key panicking.
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