Apple plans to use M2 Ultra chips in the cloud for AI

Apple plans to commencement its foray into generative AI by offloading analyzable queries to M2 Ultra chips moving successful information centers earlier moving to its much precocious M4 chips.

Bloomberg reports that Apple plans to put its M2 Ultra connected unreality servers to tally much analyzable AI queries, while elemental tasks are processed connected devices. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Apple wanted to make civilization chips to bring to information centers to guarantee information and privateness successful a project nan publication says is called Project ACDC, aliases Apple Chips successful Data Center. But nan institution now believes its existing processors already person capable information and privateness components.

The chips will beryllium deployed to Apple’s information centers and yet to servers tally by 3rd parties. Apple runs its ain servers crossed nan United States and has been moving connected a new halfway successful Waukee, Iowa, which it first announced successful 2017.

While Apple has not moved arsenic accelerated connected generative AI arsenic competitors for illustration Google, Meta, and Microsoft, nan institution has been putting retired investigation connected nan technology. In December, Apple’s instrumentality learning investigation team released MLX, a instrumentality learning model that tin make AI models tally efficiently connected Apple silicon. The institution has besides been releasing different investigation astir AI models that hint at what AI could look for illustration connected its devices and really existing products, for illustration Siri, may get an upgrade. 

Apple put a large accent connected AI capacity successful its announcement of nan caller M4 chip, saying its caller neural motor is “an outrageously powerful spot for AI.”