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by talldayo
500 days ago
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Looking at Apple's history in the field, it kinda makes perfect sense. They were not prepared for the seismic shift that AI was heading towards, and the hype for LLMs proved how wasted Apple's efforts were on NPU hardware. Their GPU designs are laser-focused on raster performance instead of GPGPU compute pipelines, and projects like OpenCL were abandoned under an assumption that Nvidia wasn't a real competitor. Altman knew this was his PowerPC transition moment. He could come in there with a power-hungry, fast and attractive product that would lure Apple into a big investment to stay competitive. Apple's executives know they're beat as much as any of the engineers do, so they were probably eager to close any form of deal and reassure investors that the hype train was still very much on-rails. |
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