Apple used Google's chips to train two AI models. Apple relied on chips designed by Google rather than industry leader Nvidia to build two key components of its artificial intelligence software infrastructure for its forthcoming suite of AI tools and features, an Apple research paper published on Monday showed. https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/ad6a909b8dfd6e278f94881d83dbd5ad5f9260c7502175059b29042e589fb93c/files/1718022021588-YAKIHONNES3.png Apple's decision to rely on Google's cloud infrastructure is notable because Nvidia produces the most sought-after AI processors. Including the chips made by Google, Amazon.com and other cloud computing companies, Nvidia commands roughly 80% of the market.
The research paper did not explicitly mention the use of Nvidia chips, and Apple's description of its hardware and software infrastructure for its AI tools and features did not include any mention of Nvidia hardware . Instead, Apple stated that it used two flavors of Google's tensor processing unit (TPU) to train its AI models . Apple deployed 8,192 TPUv4 processors for its server AI model