Apple is sitting on a multi-trillion dollar opportunity to leapfrog back into AI vanguard via hosting open models.

Apple is sitting on a multi-trillion dollar opportunity to leapfrog back into AI vanguard via hosting open models. | Apple is sitting on a multi-t trillion dollar opportunity to leaprog back into the vanguard of of AI.

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Apple is sitting on a multi-t trillion dollar opportunity to leaprog back into the vanguard of of AI.

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  "context": "And now memory is obviously incredibly scarce. They have a unified pool. So you can host really large models in terms of the model count locally. Apple is sitting on a multi-t trillion dollar opportunity to leaprog back into the vanguard of of AI. And you know, forget about Siri. Apple should be in the business of like hosting these.",
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