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by int32_64 191 days ago
Apple should setup their own giant cloud of M chips with tons of vram, make Metal as good as possible for AI purposes, then market the cloud as allowing self-hosted models for companies and individuals that care about privacy. They would clean up in all kinds of sectors whose data can't touch the big LLM companies.
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That exists but it's only for iUsers running Apple models. https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
The advantages of having a single big memory per gpu are not as big in a data center where you can just shard things between machines and use the very fast interconnect, saturating the much faster compute cores of a non Apple GPU from Nvidia or AMD