There was a weekly PBS TV show teaching you how to use VisiCalc. I was just a kid, but it was still mind blowing, and I could see how people could be afraid of it because if they couldn’t learn it they might lose their jobs.
It's not exchangeable, but it has the same effect. Apple should absolutely get into this business. Who cares if it takes a few years to build facilities when the end result is independence from the ghouls running the RAM industry right now.
It doesn't take a lifetime to build some RAM factories. Just saying.
Turns out Apple's On Device compute philosophy scales up to enterprise nicely.
Of course they do. It's just a sensationalist headline that "hopefully" not one person on here actually believes.
RAM and SSD prices still follow supply and demand fluctuations.
No you don’t. The whole US economy is in this rabbithole so bad that it will likely collapse the intire economy with the current defficit.
Apple Foundation Model 3, announced in June - ballpark timing of the gathering. Lots of stories of AFM and enterprise going back a year.
Any business claiming trade secrets — especially in pharmaceuticals, health care, robotics and consumer tech, to name a few — should be very wary of OpenAI and Anthropic tech. It’s the AI cloud version of Amazon building cheaper Amazon-branded products based on sales info from its storefront to undercut successful third party suppliers.
Without their own fab facilities it does not matter. The cost of which are non-trivial. Dell did this with their CAMM memory but their machines don’t see any pricing benefit because of limited fab capacity.
This.
Apple is not immune for GPU, CPU or modems. They are still built in the same places. I am not sure whether a memory fab facility would be the answer as it requires different processes to build. 2nm vs other nm as examples.
I agree with you, true, I just want Apple to have everything to themselves, and of themselves. So we, as a community, don’t have to deal with outsider’s problems.
Wait local AI is not what you think. Local AI is fine for many reasons compared to resource angry large models.
Don’t forget the years of training, your energy costs (food), your water usage, and everything else when figuring out what your brain can now do with those calories. 😀
You missed the part where, unless we’re unaliving everyone whose job gets taken by AI, those folks will still consume energy *and* the ai platforms that would do their job will too
So you’re saying humans require energy to live? Mazel tov! You just solved all of our energy problems! In the words of Bender Bending Rodriguez “Kill All Humans!”
You're right... I heard that private equity is holding most of the cost for AI... but they also hold a lot of equity in US bonds although how much they own is not known.... If AI crashes they would probably take out their holdings from US bonds to shore up their loses... that could cause an increase in interest rates for everyone....
My point was that they *would* sell well now. An xserve with either an extreme version of the M5 or dual or quad M5 Ultras with a fast internal interconnect would be a dream to anyone considering picking up several studios to wire up with TB for RDMA.
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