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Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models

Before we get to today's column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's major reorg, the company's new “Spud” model and its decision …

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  • @clementdelangue Clem on x
    everyone distills from everyone and AI outputs are mostly fair use imo (same as internet content which is mostly ai generated anyway)
  • @emollick Ethan Mollick on x
    Huh. I am not sure distilling Gemini models to run on phones is going to result in the generally capable agents that people will soon expect, but we shall see.
  • @justingorya Justin on x
    @kimmonismus Lol. Apple literally just pays google to do the research and they are making the finished product. tbh. Smart move.
  • @paytondev @paytondev on x
    “Apple can...produce smaller models that...are small enough to run directly on Apple devices” we're so back
  • @lafaiel @lafaiel on x
    Apple's local AFM model is insanely stable and handles multiple languages really well, even though it's tiny. The only company this good is Google, but AFM is way smaller than their Gemma The problem is the safeguard is so heavy it's basically unusable