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Apple partnering with Google and Nvidia for most advanced AI model
Apple's artificial intelligence strategy took center stage at its Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, Calif.
TL;DR
- Apple revealed its AI strategy at WWDC, focusing on privacy and convenience.
- The company announced a redesigned Siri with improved conversational abilities.
- Apple is collaborating with Google and Nvidia for its most advanced AI model, Apple Foundation Model Cloud Pro.
- Apple's AI features will run on Nvidia GPUs in Google's cloud, utilizing Nvidia's 'ambiguous confidential compute' technology.
- Apple emphasizes its privacy advantages by not collecting as much data as web-based AI services.
- An 'system orchestrator' routes AI queries to on-device or cloud models based on computational needs and data sensitivity.
- Apple's own models are custom-built for Apple Silicon and trained using proprietary data, refined with outputs from Google's Gemini frontier models.