6 stories tagged apple.
Apple Intelligence China rollout uses a custom LLM trained with Alibaba's Qwen, making Apple the first US firm approved to ship a proprietary AI model in China. The move reshapes how global builders approach the market.
Apple's Neural Engine, born from its failed car project, became the backbone of on-device AI. The M7 Ultra with 1.5TB of RAM could put Apple in the server inference market by 2027.
Memory costs are rising, but Apple's $29.6B profit makes the AI price hike harder to defend. The pass-through is a hardware margin test.
DRAM prices are up 58 to 63 percent this quarter, so Apple's CXMT memory deal turns policy risk into bill-of-materials risk.
Confidential inference lets Apple run AFM 3 Cloud Pro on NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud while keeping PCC privacy promises.
Free Private Cloud Compute for small apps, agent hooks and five AFM 3 models make Xcode 27 Apple's AI development reset for app builders.