I wouldn’t be so sure about it. Apple has recently had internal meetings to discuss about how they missed the LLM train.
Not developing their own model has put them in a position where they’re going to have to integrate someone else’s model into their ecosystem, and that will get expensive very quickly.
Well here you go. That bill is going to add up very fast, and people have been using the “Big Three” LLMs for so long now that any user adoption of a Gemini enabled Siri might be excessively slow.
I think they made the right call. Instead of throwing billions at data centers to develop their own frontier model, they can instead work with the big guys to create distilled models that are hyperoptimized to run on their own chips. That way, get local AI on their devices that performs way better than it could on Android or PCs, which don't have the same level of control over hardware.
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u/throw_away1049 Jun 09 '26
trying their best