Apple is not a competitor for anthropic/openai, it’s competitor to nvidia. Latest mac studio is very local AI capable, with 256gb uram and upcoming 512gb, while not terrible inference speed.
They are selling shovels, basically.
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DrCake@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple being shit at AI might actually be a blessing. When the bubble pops, they won’t have lost so much, and until then they can get AI companies to pay to be the Siri model (not sure if that’s what they are actually doing though).
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Their previous model has been to sell hardware, rent media, and give software away.
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Did this change?
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk, isn’t that what we were talking about? I’m not taking much for granted these days.
Buage_@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I agree!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think Apple could do AI as well as everyone else. They just recognized that everyone else is doing it badly because there’s no good way to do it so they backed out.
JC1@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I think I agree with this. When you look at what apple does, they take their time and wait to make sure the UX is good. Recently, we see it with the iPhone duo where they waited to have a product that looks nice, isn’t too bulky and they reworked the UI to make sure the UX is good. They are not the type to dive head first into the AI slop, it’s not their type. But internally, I’m sure they are experimenting and trying to polish the features for a good UX.
I personnaly dislike Apple for other reasons, but I must give credit where credit is due. It is imo a good philosophy that I could get behind, but in Apple’s case, there are too many red flags.