Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips
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- Apple said in a technical paper on Monday that the two AI models underpinning Apple Intelligence, its AI system, were pretrained on Google-designed chips in the cloud.
- Google’s Tensor Processing Units were initially created for internal workloads, but are now finding some broader adoption.
- Apple’s decision signals that some Big Tech companies may be looking for and finding alternatives to Nvidia’s graphics processing units when it comes to AI training.
