Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud

One more tidbit from Apple’s WWDC, via The Register:

Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack – servers using its in-house silicon and operating system – at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Monday.

Cupertino hasn’t actually announced the servers or OS (and never addressed rumors of its plan to make datacenter-grade processors). Instead, references to the chips and OS can be found scattered across the blizzard of announcements about AI features and product updates.

Those AI features rely on what Apple’s called “Private Cloud Compute” – an off-device environment where the iGiant runs “larger, server-based models” that do AI better than the models Cupertino loads onto its iThings.

iGuess we’ll learn the specifics – someday.

Read the reportage here.

Leave a comment