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Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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Post by gxyt6gfy5t »

shrimpx wrote: post #216

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 wouldn’t go too far. They didn’t even train this model on Apple hardware. Trained on Nvidia A100s

Re: Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model

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hosh wrote: post #309
theferalrobot wrote: post #286

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You could use that apologist language for any company. If they suck at something just say they are “biding their time” No. Apple is just demonstrably behind. Having terrible predictive text, voice to text, image classification etc isn’t just a quark of the way they do business. Those are problems with years of established work put into them and they just flat out aren’t keeping up.

“Apologists” … this is the domain of strategic analysis, business and products. Apple, Google, et al are not feudal lords or entities owed personal allegiance, nor sporting teams for fans to rally around, nor are we talking about morality and ethics where Apple did something wrong and apologists are justifying it. As far as whether they are keeping up or not, I disagree, but neither of our opinions really matter unle…

You disagree based on what? On virtually every measure they are behind in AI, I can’t think of anywhere they are ahead, please enlighten me
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