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Kuo: Apple Could Spend $4.75 Billion on AI Servers in 2024
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I'm 61. I should be dead by the time civilization fully crashes. I have no kids so whatever.
Microsoft is investing $10B in OpenAI, and just today announced they’ll be spending US$3.2B on AI and cloud capacities in Australia. And I’m sure those aren’t their only investments.
Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI
Microsoft Corp. is investing $10 billion in OpenAI, whose artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT has lit up the internet since its introduction in November, amassing more than a million users within days and touching off a fresh debate over the role of AI in the workplace.
www.bloomberg.com
Microsoft to spend $3.2b in Australia as AI regulation looms
Microsoft said it will spend A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing abilities in Australia over two years as part of a wide-ranging effort that includes skills training and cyber security.
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I think you have to turn it upside down for charging though.No one told them it was a real car... so unfortunately what they made was a scale model :/
But it does have a dock for your iPhone and you can place your AirPods in the trunk
I asked ChatGPT that question; it lists (I've condensed the spew significantly): "Consistency, Objectivity, Efficiency, Reduction of Human Error, Adaptability, Continuous Learning, Accessibility, Creativity, and Predictive Abilities." You'll notice "Correctness" or "Accuracy" is not highlighted.
The shorter answer is: People aren't all that bright. But you already knew that.
Huh? Microsoft has spent billions over the years on AI. They spent $1 billion alone in 2019 on OpenAI; They've spent at least $13 billion to date on OpenAI.
When Microsoft reported their 4th quarter results this past July, they said their capital expenditures to build out their data centers for AI work had jumped to $10.7 billion from $7.8 billion during their 3rd quarter.
And it was just reported today that Microsoft will be spending over $3 billion to expand their AI and cloud computing abilities in Australia over the next two years.
A perfect opportunity to bring Xgrid back, allowing numerous Apple devices on the same network to crunch the data anonymously.
You need orders of magnitude more GPU power, and also significantly more RAM, for something like ChatGPT, not to mention the power usage. It’s a very resource-hungry tech.
Yes, but that's also an opportunity perfectly suited for Apple... as they can optimize the training models to be smaller and more efficient to process. I've appreciated that Apple keeps their resources (RAM, etc.) lighter... as it forces developers to work harder to optimize their apps. As soon as you give developers massive amounts of headroom, they get lazy, fast.
R.I.P. Intel?
First it was Qualcomm. Now, AMD and NVidia are looking to make Arm-based PC chips.
www.reuters.com
An AMD or Nvidia powered Mac in the future?
First it was Qualcomm. Now, AMD and NVidia are looking to make Arm-based PC chips.
Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
Nvidia dominates the market for AI computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel’s longtime stronghold.
An AMD or Nvidia powered Mac in the future?
Microsoft have an ecosystem, but it's more focused in business and the enterprise. They already have CoPilot in every MS Office 365 application and some services, Windows 11, Dynamics 365, GitHub and even security services.
So what would a smarter Siri able to do? Make a screenshot?
Apple is more likely to invest in AMD EPYC Servers and the very soon to be released MI300, over Nvidia.
Is this some kind of joke? MS spends way more for their AI server infrastructure. You're acting as if $4.5 billion is a lot for Apple to spend given their total user base. $4.5 billion for a company the size of Apple is table stakes.
That’s a good question. I feel strongly that the future of Apple’s AI security won’t be forcing everything to be on the phone, because they will fall hopelessly behind in quality of service, but Apple developing next-level encryption and other protections that will make taking advantage of cloud-based power a trustworthy approach.
I know zilch about these chips, can you say more about the advantages and disadvantages of each?
Apple it's not even capable of release a finished iOS version on launch day (not even in many months). I expect nothing on AI from them. They're tooo late
But they do have an ecosystem lock though. Microsoft 365 is that lock. The seamless integration between OneDrive, your Office apps, Teams, Outlook, and even Windows so your projects are always with you.
Now you may say "But Office is on Mac" yes it there are some things Office can do on Windows that they can't on Mac, such as certain key plugins in Excel that cannot run on Mac due to the sandboxed nature of the OS.
Also forgot to mention that Office has generative AI in it that can make clipart for presentations.
So much money to spend on AI servers and still just give us 5GB of free cloud storage!