Apple turns to Amazon chips for AI pre-training and more
Apple's senior director of machine learning and AI reveals the company uses custom Amazon Web Services (AWS) chips for various cloud services, with plans to evaluate AWS' new Trainium2 chip for pre-training its AI models, expecting up to 50% improvement in efficiency.

Apple's senior director of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Benoit Dupin, revealed at Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference that the company uses custom AI chips from Amazon Web Services for many of its cloud services. Apple is also evaluating using Amazon's newest AI chip, Trainium2, for pre-training its Apple Intelligence models. This provides a 40% gain in efficiency compared to x86 chips from Intel and AMD.
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