… That’s because the full Gemini model provided by Google has “trillions of parameters” and “requires so much computing horsepower that Apple has struggled to get it to work on its own internal server infrastructure, called Private Cloud Compute.” The solution reportedly involves turning to Google Cl… …
… Apple recently approved the use of a privacy technology from Nvidia in that setting, suggesting it will use Nvidia AI chips for at least some of its computing needs in Google Cloud, according to people familiar with the matter. …
… Per Qualcomm, Solara is “a new chip-to-cloud platform where silicon, software and cloud come together to power AI experiences that are more personal, more aware and always with you.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon filmed a video where they discuss the init… …
… The agreement appears to be that the Google Cloud Gemini models will run on a type of Nvidia chip that supports encrypted processing. Apple will tap into Google’s fleet of Nvidia’s Blackwell B200 data center chips, said the people. …
… Gurman’s reporting doesn’t specify what new chips will be going into which new products. …
… However, it’s worth noting that on median query runtimes the MacBook Neo can still beat the c6a.4xlarge, a mid-sized cloud instance. And the laptop’s total runtime is only about 13% slower despite the cloud box having 10 more CPU threads and 4 times as much RAM. …
… Spring for 256 GB if you can, or keep your cloud budget handy. …
… On Apple’s M5, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Ollama leverages the new GPU Neural Accelerators to accelerate both time to first token TTFT and generation speed tokens per second . …
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… It’s in the hands of the user and the hands of the inventor.” Then Cook points to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute as a privacy-centric model for AI: “Well, we do as much as possible on the device. …