Plus I interviewed most of the startups that Apple bought. 🙂
BIG TECH
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Apple Vision Device Insights: Cultural Shift in Tech
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Thank you! I know how Apple thinks from the very beginning. And lots of people tell me what's coming here in Silicon Valley. So I was able to put it together fairly closely without seeing the device. Thanks! Now the future gets weird, cultural change comes with the Vision
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Decade-long AI strategy already planned by major players
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They know already. They have the next decade planned out in quite some detail, I hear.
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Meta restricts in-store VR headset trials to specific days
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True. I went in to one recently and they do not allow trying it out except on specific days when a Meta rep is in store.
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Apple’s AI Strategy: Obfuscation and Market Positioning
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Or not! That's the fun of over-speculation. But Apple has a long history of obfuscation—and AI is an area that was a blind spot to most of the world until the launch of ChatGPT.
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Apple Frameworks Need Optimization for ML Model Development
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Of course, Apple frameworks are far from optimized for ML model development. They're actually pretty bad! But the bar is ridiculously low for Apple here to improve on, and it seems like it's starting to do a lot of foundational work here to own those workflows.
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Apple Abandons Foundation Models, Focuses on Developer Ecosystem
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So here Apple has basically said, screw it, let's focus on the long tail of developers and leave the huge foundation model development to Nvidia. But that was really how it was always going to play out given the big Cuda dependency most large model training has.
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Apple’s ML Strategy: Fine-tuning and Quantizing Models for Production
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Based on the announcements, as well as some descriptions from WWDC sessions, we can see a potential ML development route Apple is targeting: fine-tuning and quantizing ML models to put into prod.
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Apple Uses Transformers for Autocorrect, Positions Mac Studio for ML
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There were two essentially throwaway lines from WWDC yesterday. First, it's using a transformers-based approach for autocorrect, of all things. And the second was it wanted to semi-position its new Mac Studio with a comically large level of memory for ML training workflows.
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Apple’s AI Strategy: Speculation on Model Development Plans
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Okay! Today's issue of Supervised is about over-speculating on Apple's AI plans, as is the time-honored tradition with all Apple launches and product releases. For this we're looking specifically at what type of model development Apple wants to own.