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I think there is one company very well placed to do this, Apple. Their revenue is driven by hardware sales, rather than advertising, and they have committed to some level of "privacy" focussed design (although obviously there are criticisms). On top of that their hardware is looking almost like it was design for exactly these use cases. Apple silicone with its unified memory architecture, GPU and Neural cores is very well placed for local LLMs.

Apple have a history of doing stuff locally, on the hardware they designed, that other companies have offloaded to the cloud.

They are looking for "the next big thing" that lets them sell hardware. Some people thinks that's going to be their VR/AR headset, I don't. It's going to be local AI running privately on your device. Putting the AI in the cloud doesn't help with hardware sales.

My only hesitation is that they have such a crap spell checker, surly you would solve first...

parent samwillis 3 years ago

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