The company's strategy is to maintain its focus on hardware and chips while benefiting from the work of other researchers, particularly those in the open-source community. This progress could eventually be incorporated into Apple's software and other products, potentially boosting MacBook sales. The company is also involved in other open-source AI efforts, including Matryoshka Diffusion Models, FastVIT, Ferret, MobileClip, and StableDreamer.
Key takeaways:
- Apple has started to promote the 'AI' capabilities of its computers, starting with the recently announced M3 MacBooks.
- Apple has released MLX, a new machine learning framework for Apple Silicon, designed to boost the performance needed for models such as Mistral and Stable Diffusion.
- The new framework is intended to help Apple regain the affection of the developer community and 'ML researchers'.
- Apple's strategy is to leverage its hardware and chip expertise while benefiting from the work of other researchers, especially those in the open-source community.