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Apple announced that its AI models, which underpin the Apple Intelligence system, have been trained on chips designed by #Google in the cloud.

news was revealed in a technical paper. Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were initially created for internal workloads but are now used in some broader applications. Apple's decision to use Google's tensor chips indicates that some major tech companies are seeking alternatives to NVIDIA's GPUs for AI training.

its 47-page paper, Apple did not mention Google or NVIDIA by name but stated that the Apple Foundation Model (AFM) and the AFM server were trained on "cloud TPU clusters," meaning Apple rented servers from a cloud provider to perform the computations needed to train its AI models.