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Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.
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The interesting part is not whether Apple wins the biggest model race, but whether it changes the economics: If enough AI runs locally, every token avoided is cloud capacity nobody has to build. That is a very different business model from selling ever more cloud compute.
He can see into the future.
Future #1: The lifetime of the pure AI companies is limited.
Future #2: Local LLM’s are trending, because “token” prices will go up like crazy.
The present: Open Weight AI, such as Kimi’s, is already almost exactly as good as ClosedAI from Anthropic and »OpenAI«.
Looks like an interesting approach
And this will have huge ramifications for my field, energy, because a substantial portion of compute power usage will move out of data centers and into the edge (your iPhone)
The decentralised operation of LLMs would also be significantly simpler and cheaper for the use of decentralised renewable energy sources.
It seems to have been a plan for a long time, given their huge shift to unified memory architectures across most of their hardware.
They’re pretty much the only vendor where you can cost-effectively deploy a foundational LLM locally.
It would seem so. On the other hand, it is puzzling that they did not also allocate the necessary resources to the development of LLMs. 🤷
I am practicing that strategy now. I recently upgraded to an iPad Pro M5 (the day price increases were announced, jumped on a deal immediately), upgraded several shortcuts with Apple Intelligence, and am refining them to run entirely on-device instead of in PCC (not using ChatGPT at all).
I’m waiting for the next generation of Mac Mini and Mac Studio.