Report details Apple’s plan to use Nvidia chips for the Gemini
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Key Points:
- Apple plans to use Nvidia’s Blackwell B200 data center GPUs via Google Cloud to power a new version of Siri, leveraging Google’s Gemini AI model for some user queries.
- The company will enable Nvidia’s confidential compute feature, which encrypts data during processing on the GPUs, enhancing privacy and security for AI workloads.
- Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture offers significant improvements in AI model training and inference, supporting very large-scale models with better performance and memory bandwidth.
- This approach marks a shift from Apple’s traditional strategy of controlling all core product components, raising questions about the role of its existing Private Cloud Compute system in the new Siri deployment.