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Can't wait for this to blow up big tech. Apple will be the only one left standing ig because they don't have AI.
They do have AI, there’s a slop generating feature built into new iPhones and iPads.
Apple might be one of the few US companies that bet correctly though because they've been focusing on making stuff work locally on the device. That is very likely where the future of AI is going, open models that you run locally. Apple managed to build a decent hardware architecture geared towards doing that.
And they've hedged their bets and made sure to abide with Chinese regulations etc, while Nvidia and others put all their eggs in the shaky basket that is the US
I haven't read anything recently, but it seems a while back they said they would be integrating gpt?
I think they might have some deals with openai for siri, but they've also been doing a lot of work on making local models run fast https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-2025-updates
Ah yeah, I misremembered, thanks!
They might be able to squeeze through a crack in the wall this time, but one day the BigTech Reaper will catch them!
Not even the iCult, armed to their teeth with unrepairable landfill from their deity, will be able to help them!
I suspect that in the not too distant future, the PRC will eventually outcompete them in terms of Quality, Quantity & Price.
China will make actually innovative and useful hardware using domestic ingredients that will make Apple landfill obsolete.
Washington may hand out sanctions and the iCult may cry and tell people to vote with their wallet, but that won't stop the Reaper.
Yeah, I expect so as well. There's nothing magical about the stuff Apple puts out. They did come up with a good architecture with M series, but nothing stops Huawei from making a similar SoC using RISCV, and I don't think it's going to take long for them to pull ahead at this point.