>i didn't know that the ANE (and the data pipeline around it) was designed for CNN rather than transformers.
Multiple stories have reported that ANE came from Apple's self-driving car project that got canceled. (Makes sense since CNN is used for vision-related machine learning and enables cars to analyze their surroundings.) They spent 10 years and ~10 billion on research & development on a product that never got released so Apple is probably happy they're able to salvage some of that ai technology and put it in iPhones and Macs.
Multiple stories have reported that ANE came from Apple's self-driving car project that got canceled. (Makes sense since CNN is used for vision-related machine learning and enables cars to analyze their surroundings.) They spent 10 years and ~10 billion on research & development on a product that never got released so Apple is probably happy they're able to salvage some of that ai technology and put it in iPhones and Macs.