The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power a million homes. Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating.
From the Macalope's "Those Apple AI rumors aren’t all that Perplexing when you think Intelligently about it" posted Tuesday by Macworld.
A fresh look — using Clay Christensen's framework of sustaining versus disruptive innovation — at the impact of AI on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
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If Apple really is circling names like Perplexity, Cohere, Mistral, and Databricks -- that’s not just a feature acquisition spree. That’s a declaration. A reframing.
"Buying a multibillion-dollar AI company would represent a radical shift away from Apple’s conservative M&A strategy."
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"Apple is not looking for a search engine. It’s looking for a brain."
"Not likely! But Meta-Scale is so unlikely that I feel we aren’t living in a world of likelies." — Perplexity chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko
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Newly released to developers, Apple Intelligence's transcription tools are fast, accurate, and typically double the speed of OpenAI's longstanding equivalent.
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Alibaba has launched open-source models optimised for Apple’s MLX framework for machine learning.
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"If you're saying that we have a safe device ecosystem that grows low single digits into perpetuity, that's not really that exciting of an investment case." — Deepwater's Doug Clinton
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