Yet at the same time google have the worst offering of all the major players (all starting up out of thin air) in this space.
It doesnt really matter anyway, the LLM is a commodity piece of tech, the interface is what matters and apple should focus on making that rather than worry about scraping the entire internet for training data and spending a trillion on GPUs
Maybe paying Google a billion a year is still a lot cheaper?
Apple famously tries to focus on only a few things.
Still, they will continue working on their own LLM and plug it in when ready.
Edit: compare to another comment about Wang-units of currency
do businesses really "think" in a personified manner as this? isnt it just what the accounting resolves to as the optimal path?
That might be true but Siri sucks so bad it doesn't matter. It uses GPT but the quality is OSS models' level.
It is cheaper to buy GPUs than to develop the capabilities to develop GPUs.
It means that Apple's huge, expensive AI team has basically failed.
And it presumably means that Apple is willing to accept Google's practices for ML model training and use.
Google closes their trade deficit to half a billion dollars per year.
The UX and integration with regular phone features is what makes the tool shine and by now there should be plenty of open source models and know how to create their own.
What is Google offering that Apple can't figure out on their own?
Maybe people don't personal assitant AI enough to justify the investment? My phone has probably 6 or 7 AI tools that have talking features that I don't ever explore.
> "Hey Siri, whens the next Formula 1 race in Montreal"
and she responds with the same infuriating answer I typically get
> "Hmm, I found some interesting results on the web, I can show them to you if you ask again from your iPhone"
I don't care what pride Apple has to swallow, or if they have to layoff 10,000 people.
I just want my device ecosystem to be able to do what its competitors have been able to do for a decade, or what Ive been able to build myself for the last 3 years. A working and useful voice assistant.
At this point Im convinced Tim Cook could sit at a terminal himself and ship a better version of what Apple has in an afternoon.
$1B for the software and $1B for the hardware, every few years.
Or why HomePods don't get answers via iPhone.
Am I interpreting that correctly?
I can understand that to a degree but that means the future for Apple is as a technology integrator, not a fundamental technology company.
As I type that out I guess I’m realizing that has always been true.
Next to all the money they poured into Liquid glAss, this will be the worst investment Apple has ever made.
Also under the agreement, Google’s model will reportedly run on Apple’s own servers, which in practice means that no user data will be shared with Google. Instead, they won’t leave Apple’s Private Cloud Compute structure.
The model will run on Apple’s own Private Cloud Compute servers, ensuring that user data remains walled off from Google’s infrastructure.