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Maybe so. But Apple should be able to use a smaller model for the older devices like 14 pro.
They have already probably optimized it as much as they possibly can while still maintaining the accuracy of the output. Apple has released lots of research papers towards that, and they have released some AI models on huggingface if you are curious about that. Quantization is one method used to reduce the size of the AI models.
 
What about the non-Siri stuff like what they were showing in mail and messages? Is that all hidden behind UI that won’t be surfaced on older hardware?
I'm currently installing the beta on my iPhone so I'll tell you in a bit. The automatic sorting thing and so in Mail I think they just called ML and it's not behind the Apple Intelligence moniker. Scheduling messages etc. is coming to all. Probably what they mentioned after introducing it as Apple Intelligence is the 15 Pro exclusives. The rest of us get an uglier control center and overcomplicated Photos UI.
 
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Probably taking the bait here, but TSMC has customers including AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm (Snapdragon).

It's true that their 3nm process is unique (made possible by ASML), but that does not mean you can just give them a wishlist of requirements and say "btw just bake it at 3nm". You need to provide them with a chip design and work with them to make it possible.
Not trying to troll, but that often is how chip designs work.

Fabs send their clients a PDK. It has information about Mtr/mm2, yield, PPA, as well as other information on yield/performance metrics given a reference design.
Custom Chip designs are done using the information in the PDK, but deciding to increase your core size or whatever isn’t technically hard. The hard part is convincing your manager to eat the cost of a higher core size, not telling the fab what dimensions the core will be.
 
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Apple “Intelligence” my butt. Apple trying to pretend they did the hard, intellectual work when this is just a repackaged ChatGPT program. It’s the same shenanigans they pulled with Apple Silicon where they tried to pretend their “designs” are the reasons their chips performed well when chip design is insignificant and about as hard intellectually as ordering pizza.

Stop taking credit for other company’s inventions!
Where does it say that Apple Intelligence is repackaged ChatGPT? Because from what I saw it is Apple software running on Apple Servers.
 
As I understand it, Apple HAS built their own LLM that runs on device. AND, given the nature of what they are developing, an LLM that is context aware, that know's your details, it's critical to keep this process on device and as secure as possible.
They probably have several. There are many LLMs available with different Parameter sizes. For many purposes you do not need a full fledged model with billions of parameters that require loads of ram and compute power. Like a Flan-t5 with fine tuning. ChatGPT-4o cannot run on a 8GB device anyway (no way). So they will have purpose built models with less parameters for certain tasks and a more complex one for Siri for general understanding. Which will still be less powerful than ChatGPT as it has to run on device with limited compute power (and most of all - memory). For more complex queries you will need to offload.
 
This wasn't even a matter of Windows being secure or not, it was what Recall was doing that made it especially egregious.
I'm not talking about windows security; I'm talking about how Microsoft secured and stored the index data specific to the recall feature. When researchers get hands on iOS 18, they can also figure out how secure the index data are for the AI feature on iOS 18.
 
Oh, so you now recognize that from development to the hands of the consumer involves more than just fabrication of a chip? This is like saying that Apple had nothing to do with the OLED's in their screens...which I'm sure you mistakenly believe as well.
It’s the entire fabrication process. Just having an EUV machine doesn’t guarantee anything. One of the ways TSMC and Samsung solved low yield on 4nm is through a technique called yield-capture that has nothing to do with EUV. There are thousands of steps in a chip fab and the EUV is a critical but small role in the overall process.
Apple’s role is insignificant.

Also, yes, those OLEDs are Samsung/LG-developed displays with Apple having no input in its development. It’s literally a Samsung M-panel display set technology in most of the pro models. You ever wonder why Apple can’t just go to one of those hundreds of Chinese display makers to get those panels? It’s because Apple doesn’t develop the tech in their displays. Remember tandem OLED that Apple bragged about? Turns out Dell also has it now in their laptops because they source it from LG, who developed it.
 
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There was a lot that Apple announced that has nothing to do with ChatGPT.

Not really. The first thing I saw them do with Siri was ask what’s the weather like somewhere else. It went downhill from there.

Then they mentioned ChatGPT and things got better. Except for this annoying little prompt is it ok to use something smarter than Siri (which is basically any third party ai service).
 
Apple Intelligence is an unusual name for such a feature… I think their marketing ran out of ideas for names or had none on this feature.

What it does is cool, and looks very promising. But that name.. Im not so sure… I mean it’s not even their own AI technology. It’s a little misleading.
What makes you think it’s not their own AI technology? Most of what they presented today is their own tech. The ChatGPT component is just bolted on to handle some specific task that take special handling or require web results like trivia questions. You might want to rewatch the presentation.
 
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What makes you think it’s not their own AI technology? Most of what they presented today is their own tech. The ChatGPT component is just bolted on to handle some specific task that take special handling or require web results like trivia questions. You might want to rewatch the presentation.

The whole compose and rewrite feature is ChatGPT.

Apples intelligence? Just more of the same we’re used to. Anything significant will be handed off to ChatGPT.
 
The whole compose and rewrite feature is ChatGPT.

Apples intelligence? Just more of the same we’re used to. Anything significant will be handed off to ChatGPT.
Maybe they will use the OpenAI models for the rewrite feature. But the presentation was pretty clear, that compute is done on Apple servers.
 
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I would actually already be happy, if suggestions for typing would finally be more useful in my language. Currently they are very bare bones and hardly useful.
 
It is also getting increasing difficult to know what anyone is doing themselves or with help of AI. Messages, email, images.

There are positives and negatives but we are entering a very blurry time.

Hey, did you just sent me a message or was it your AI assistant?
Did you read this with your own eyes, or did you wear glasses?

Really, it’s just another tool.
 
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