Apple skips Nvidia’s GPUs for its AI models, uses thousands of Google TPUs instead

Apple has revealed that it didn’t use Nvidia’s hardware accelerators to develop its recently revealed Apple Intelligence features. According to an official Apple research paper (PDF), it instead relied on Google TPUs to crunch the training data behind the Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models. 

Apple has revealed that it didn’t use Nvidia’s hardware accelerators to develop its recently revealed Apple Intelligence features. According to an official Apple research paper (PDF), it instead relied on Google TPUs to crunch the training data behind the Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models.