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Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to w…

Don’t TSMC make Nvidia’s chips too?

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Mistral 7B is pretty good and the instruct v0.2 runs on my iPhone through MLC Chat. However, the ChatGPT4 app is much better in usability: better model, multi-modal with text/vision/speech and better UI.

gpt 4 allows commercial use?

Why wouldn't it? They sell the API for a reason.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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anyone know what is the best open source model that allows commercial use and can run locally on an iphone?

I’ve made an example app for a Flutter plugin I created that can do this.

Open-source, runs natively on all major platforms. I shared videos showing it on my iPad Mini, Pixel 7, iPhone 12, Surface Pro (Win 10 & Ubuntu Jellyfish) and Macs (Intel & M archs).

By all means, it’s not a finished app. I simply wanted to use on-device AI stuff in Flutter so I started with porting over llama.cpp, and later on I’ll tinker with porting over whatever is the state of the art (whisper.cpp, bark.cpp etc).

Repo: https://github.com/BrutalCoding/aub.ai

For any of your Apple devices, use this: https://testflight.apple.com/join/XuTpIgyY

App is compatible with any GGUF files, but it must be in the ChatML prompt format otherwise the chat UI/bubbles probably gets funky. I haven’t made it customizable yet, after all - it’s just an example app of the plugin. But I am actively working on it to nail my vision.

Cheers, Daniel

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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The point of this thread is that even though Apple makes silly charts saying how good their hardware is at ML, they use products that their silly charts say aren't as good. There is no such hypocrisy if they use Samsung refrigerators.

ML inference and training are not the same task.

...and doing either of those things with CUDA is impossible on Mac. Why? Because Apple burned their bridge with Nvidia and threw a temper tantrum, that's why. Now Nvidia can't support MacOS, even if they wanted.

That's kinda the point of my original comment. Apple claims to know what's best, but contradict themselves through their own actions. We wouldn't be in awkward situations like this if Apple didn't staunchly box-out competitors and force customers to follow them or abandon the ecosystem. It's almost vindicating for people like me, who left MacOS because of these pointless decisions.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to w…

I doubt Apple’s going to make some big ChatGPT-style chatbot. They’re “just” going to use the same tech to drive iterative (good!) improvements to their products, like Siri and keyboard auto-complete.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Since they got rid of Jony, it's been great. That's all I'm saying.

Absolutely! The hardware, that is. With software, their Come to Jesus moment is still in the future. (To me, Swift is sort of the Jony correlate on the software side. Doesn't fit perfectly, of course, but very similar "we are perfect who cares about evidence la la la I can't hear you" vibes and results)

Yes, they have treated macOS like a toy. It's time they made it a real OS.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to w…

Can you give an example? I switched to android because i use personal assistant a lot while driving and siri was absolutely horrible.

- FaceID

- Facial recognition in Photos

- "Memories" in Photos

- iOS keyboard autocomplete using LLMs. I am bilingual and noticed in the latest iOS it now does multi-language autocomplete and you no longer have to manually switch languages.

- Event detection for Calendar

- Depth Fusion in the iOS camera app, using ML to take crisper photos

- Probably others...

The crazy thing is most/all of these run on the device.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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post #221

Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to w…

Don’t TSMC make Nvidia’s chips too?

Yup! TSMC wins either way.

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising. I think they could blow away Microsoft/OpenAI and Google, if suddenly a new iOS release makes the OpenAI/Bard chatbox look laughably antiquated. They're also a threat to Nvidia, if a significant swath of AI usage switches over to Apple hardware. Arm and TSMC would stand to w…

I doubt Apple’s going to make some big ChatGPT-style chatbot. They’re “just” going to use the same tech to drive iterative (good!) improvements to their products, like Siri and keyboard auto-complete.

Yeah. Siri supports text input already, anyway. Siri is their ChatGPT-style bot that's going to keep improving.
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