Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing chips gives it an advantage in running AI locally, and will use a distilled Gemini model
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Apple will distill a version of Google's Gemini model to run on the iPhone. But for AI that's too big for the iPhone, it will turn to... Nvidia My latest story: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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“I think the data center boom is a mistake,” said David Stout, CEO of Austin-based AI startup webAI. “Intelligence is getting smaller. Data centers won't disappear, but the majority of work will happen at the edge. Apple made the bet correctly there.” www.theinformation.com/ar…