Heavily upgraded M3 Ultra Mac Studio is great for AI projects

The Mac Studio is a great system for running AI models like DeepSeek locally. That is, if you're prepared to pay for M3 Ultra and a lot of upgrades.

Malcolm Owen 1 year ago 38

Apple is working on a 'lifelike' robot lamp, and it's just as cute as you'd expect

Apple Machine Learning Research has released a short video and a twelve-page accompanying paper showcasing the importance of human-like movement in its prototyped robot.

Amber Neely 1 year ago 22

Apple signs lease for even more office space in Seattle

Apple is expanding its presence in the Evergreen State, signing a direct lease for nearly 193,000 square feet of office space in South Lake Union.

Amber Neely 1 year ago 1

Apple considers using Amazon chips to train future Apple Intelligence models

Apple is using chips sourced from Amazon Web Services to handle searches, and it may also use them to pre-train Apple Intelligence AI models.

Malcolm Owen 1 year ago 3

Apple calling everything that it released 'intelligent' won't help it catch up

After practically disdaining the phrase "artificial intelligence," Apple first compromised with "Apple Intelligence," but now it's overusing the term and applying it even to devices that won't run the new feature.

William Gallagher 1 year ago 30

Apple researchers add 20 more open-source models to improve text and image AI

Apple has contributed 20 new Core Machine Learning models to an open source AI repository Hugging Face, adding to its existing public models and research papers.

William Gallagher 2 years ago 3

Microsoft's Copilot PC and the M3 Mac killer myth

According to proponents of this myth, Microsoft is out to kill Apple's Macs with a "new" PC it will design and build on its own. Once it arrives, they expect Microsoft to clean up not only the PC market, but also the market for Edge AI software sales, leaving Apple on the sidelines.

Daniel Eran Dilger 2 years ago 47

What to expect in iOS 18: AI, new look, redesigned stock apps, and more

The releases of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 is shaping up to be Apple's biggest OS refresh in a decade. On top of expected machine learning and AI advancements, the stock apps and overall look will be getting a makeover.

Charles Martin 2 years ago 12

New iPad Pro rumored to debut with M4 chip

A new rumor claims that the forthcoming iPad Pro, scheduled to debut on May 7, could be the first Apple product with the next-generation M4 chip powering it.

Charles Martin 2 years ago 40

Apple's four new open-source models could help make future AI more accurate

Apple has publicly shared four open-source models boasting of enhanced accuracy for queries, which could help the development of future AI models.

Malcolm Owen 2 years ago 1

Rumor: M4 MacBook Pro with AI enhancements expected at the end of 2024

Apple's next generation M4 Apple Silicon, is expected to arrive before the end of 2024, and is rumored to have a greater focus on AI than ever before.

Malcolm Owen 2 years ago 29

Apple's new AI model could help Siri see how iOS apps work

Apple's Ferret LLM could help allow Siri to understand the layout of apps in an iPhone display, potentially increasing the capabilities of Apple's digital assistant.

Malcolm Owen 2 years ago 9

Apple is already being weirdly criticized for an AI effort that hasn't launched yet

Apple is in the best position to make a difference in the public perception of Artificial Intelligence and how it's used at home, on mobile, and everywhere — and the regular folks that routinely peddle false narratives about the company are already taking poorly-aimed potshots at the company and the effort like they always have.

Daniel Eran Dilger 2 years ago 42

New Apple AI training method retains privacy, and could make a future Siri more flexible

Apple researchers have hit on a new multi-modal method of quickly training large language models (LLMs) that can enable more flexible and powerful machine-learning and "AI" type systems.

Charles Martin 2 years ago 5

Apple will reap the rewards of the cancelled Apple Car project for decades

While the Apple Car project may be dead, Apple isn't going to lose a single dime on the research it did to make a fully self-driving car, given how the industry is going.

Mike Wuerthele 2 years ago 39

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