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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: 1.03s | 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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janalsncm ◴[27 Jun 25 07:38 UTC] No.44394586[source]▶
The bitter-er lesson is that distillation from bigger models works pretty damn well. It’s great news for the GPU poor, not great for the guys training the models we distill from.
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1. rfv6723 ◴[28 Jun 25 02:26 UTC] No.44401947[source]▶
Distillation is great for researchers and hobbyists.

But nearly all frontier models have anti-distillation ToS, so distillation is out of question for western commercial companies like Apple.

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2. janalsncm ◴[28 Jun 25 04:55 UTC] No.44402386[source]▶
Even if Apple needs to train an LLM from scratch, they can distill it and deploy on edge devices. From that point, inference is free to them.