Tim Cook will say anything to try and get ahead. First Apple’s talking about how good their AI is/will be, but now fears of over-hyped AI spending and data center issues, etc, now he’s claims oh and it’ll all run locally. Apples typical “we’re not the bad guys”
While local LLMs are getting better, I still feel like overall, this will tank battery life, and through several million devices charging, will still use a lot of extra power overall. Plus, a lot of the data center issues falls to training and ingesting information, so, Apple let’s the other guys do the heavy lifting for them to seem less evil? Wasn’t Apple initially involved with OpenAI when they were a nonprofit and cofunded business? Idk, I still say Apple isn’t trustworthy.
Apple’s marketing deserves skepticism, but the technical argument is separate. Local inference does not eliminate giant training clusters, it mainly cuts inference costs, latency and improves privacy. Apple still uses cloud models when needed.
Tim Cook will say anything to try and get ahead. First Apple’s talking about how good their AI is/will be, but now fears of over-hyped AI spending and data center issues, etc, now he’s claims oh and it’ll all run locally. Apples typical “we’re not the bad guys”
While local LLMs are getting better, I still feel like overall, this will tank battery life, and through several million devices charging, will still use a lot of extra power overall. Plus, a lot of the data center issues falls to training and ingesting information, so, Apple let’s the other guys do the heavy lifting for them to seem less evil? Wasn’t Apple initially involved with OpenAI when they were a nonprofit and cofunded business? Idk, I still say Apple isn’t trustworthy.
Apple’s marketing deserves skepticism, but the technical argument is separate. Local inference does not eliminate giant training clusters, it mainly cuts inference costs, latency and improves privacy. Apple still uses cloud models when needed.