Apple doesn't have as much of an advantage as it appears. Their Neural Engine are fast and getting better, but modern machine learning models need another resou

Apple doesn't have as much of an advantage as it appears. Their Neural Engine are fast and getting better, but modern machine learning models need another resource: fast RAM. Unfortunately for Apple, their whole product stack is segmented based on RAM. There are millions and millions of Apple devices with lightning-fast processors and 8GB or even 4GB RAM. These won't be able to do anything like Copilot+, unless they make calls to a datacenter like Microsoft is doing. Their existing local models are hit-or-miss already. FaceTime's audio transcription is laughable. Whether this is due to memory requirements, I don't know, but it doesn't bode well for further models.