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Apple has a massive cloud, but they don’t sell it or really want to sell it. I think they’ll want local because it fits into their profit margins and pushes hi
by prepend 3y ago
Apple has a massive cloud, but they don’t sell it or really want to sell it.
I think they’ll want local because it fits into their profit margins and pushes higher end hardware. Imagine really having a reason to buy an iPhone18Pro or whatever.
And I think llms will be able to scale digitally if they are compact enough to run locally (ie, Apple pays for development once, deploys it and then all operational costs are on the client). This is really different from openAI, and other cloud LLMs, where each user has a marginal cost to operate so requires a monthly recurring cost.
- nujabe 3y agoApple does not have the scale of other major cloud providers, the fact they’re not in the cloud game having customers subsidize their cloud costs is why it would cost them a lot.
- prepend 3y agoDefinitely not as big as Amazon or Microsoft, but big enough to do whatever they want regarding AI. I’d expect the private cloud they operate is top 20 in the world just to support all their Apple saas offerings.
- shooker435 3y agoThis is actually not true, they're hosted on GCP. This was leaked and confirmed: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/29/apple-is-now-googles-largest-corporate-customer-for-cloud-storage https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/29/apple-is-now-goog...