Comment by browningstreet
3 days ago
Still weird, and against brand, for them to lead with this particular model from that particular company. The groans are still earned.
3 days ago
Still weird, and against brand, for them to lead with this particular model from that particular company. The groans are still earned.
They don’t lead with it. The title of the actual article is “Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio”.
The submitter changed it to “Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio”
Second paragraph: "In this post, we show how to run the latest frontier-class model — Muse Spark Open, with nearly a trillion parameters..."
I find it bizarre of Apple to do anything publicly in partnership with Meta. I always thought the reasons Apple snubbed Facebook were out of values and principles not business. That could be wrong. Now that Meta has a line of business that Apple can finally charge a platform tax on there is new reason to start sleeping with them.
> I always thought the reasons Apple snubbed Facebook were out of values and principles not business.
Apple is showing a masterclass of how to tow the line perfectly. Or more candily "have the cake and eat it too".
If you ask anyone, what's one company that'll stand up to government requests, most reasonable people would say Apple. Yet, Apple is extremely strategic when it comes to China. It thrives in that country, without being associated with CCP.
Same here - they are happy to partner with Meta, without getting any of the bad "aura".
To be clear, all companies do this just that Apple alone has a successful strategy here. Tim Cook personally gifted the current adminstration with a gold plaque, something none of the other "dirty" CEOs did. Such a public gesture, yet nobody would think that Apple is in bed with the current administration. Its marvelous to see this happen in real time.
> If you ask anyone, what's one company that'll stand up to government requests, most reasonable people would say Apple. Yet, Apple is extremely strategic when it comes to China. It thrives in that country, without being associated with CCP.
You can stand up to government requests when it is legal to do so. Eventually you have to decide to abide by the law or leave the market.
Apple also was one of the largest contributors to the ballroom. They're not maintaining much of a "moat" between the company and the administration.
Its still weird though.
The datacenters are not full of Mac studios but Nvidia hardware.
They are known for macbooks.
And they are not willing to build proper apple servers for all the build systems people have.
They did, and few people bought them, so they stopped.
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