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> NVIDIA hardware is widely used for academic and massive computations. Being able to write/test code locally on a Mac and then deploy to super computers would
by elpakal 1y ago
> NVIDIA hardware is widely used for academic and massive computations. Being able to write/test code locally on a Mac and then deploy to super computers would make a good developer experience.
That one stands out to me as a mac user.
- radicaldreamer 1y agoMacBooks used to use Nvidia GPUs, then Apple had a falling out with Nvidia and the beef stands to this day (Apple didn’t use Nvidia hardware when training it’s own LLMs for Apple Intelligence). I wouldn’t be surprised if within the next few years we see a return of Nvidia hardware to the Mac, probably starting with low volume products like the MacPro, strictly for professional/high-end use cases.
- fooker 1y ago> Apple didn’t use Nvidia hardware when training it’s own LLMs for Apple Intelligence Do you have some links for this?
- almostgotcaught 1y agoPeople on hn make up more BS than your local bar https://www.investors.com/news/technology/apple-stock-apple-joins-ai-data-center-race/ https://www.investors.com/news/technology/apple-stock-apple-...
- tgma 1y agoWhat did the poster make up? There's one line where they speculated about future and a commentary about beef existing to this day which is subjective but the rest of it was 100% factual: Apple relied on Google for training their LLM for various reasons and they did have a beef with NVIDIA re MacBooks a long time ago after which they switched the entire line to AMD Graphics.
- dialup_sounds 1y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21075 https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21075 tl;dr - they used Google TPUs