[jahewson]

That's absurd. Fabing custom silicon is not something anybody does for a few thousand internal servers. The unit economics simply don't work. Plus Apple is using OpenAI to provide its larger models anyway, so the need never even existed.

[brookst]

Apple is positively building custom servers, and quantities are closer to the 100k range than 1000 [0]

But I agree they are not using m3 ultra for that. It wouldn’t make any sense.

0. https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06/11/apple_built_ai_cl...

[teknologist]

That could be why they're also selling it as the Mac Studio M3 Ultra