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Apple Research unearthed forgotten AI technique and using it to generate images

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129 points celias | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 18:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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rfv6723 ◴[27 Jun 25 03:07 UTC] No.44393382[source]▶
Apple AI team keeps going against the bitter lesson and focusing on small on-device models.

Let's see how this would turn out in longterm.

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1. echelon ◴[27 Jun 25 03:28 UTC] No.44393454[source]▶
Edge compute would be clutch, but Apple feels a decade too early.
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2. 7speter ◴[27 Jun 25 06:29 UTC] No.44394202[source]▶
Maybe for a big llm, but if they add some gpu cores and added a magnitude or 2 more unified memory to their i devices, or shoehorned m socs into high tier iDevices (especially as their lithography process advances), image generation becomes more viable, no? Also, I thought I read somewhere that apple wanted to infer simpler queries locally and switch to datacenter inference when the request was more complicated.

If they approach things this way, and transistor progress continues linearly (relative to the last few years) maybe they can make their first devices that can meet these goals in… 2-3 years?