> I'm personally wondering in how far ML compute will be done on consumer devices, rather than on servers.
Running ML on the device has been one of Apple's value propositions for a long time. They are currently silent on everything that's unfolding, but I expect them to at least mention something and WWDC (and trying to run that something on the device)
If I understand correctly, there was an all-company invited annual AI day which was silent on recent developments.
But then ~two weeks later there was what seemed like an on-background / press leak about the XDG group that specifically mentioned AI as a current discipline. (Gurman / Bloomberg)
It seems to me that the release of Core ML stable diffusion (mentions itt) is something if a comment in of itself. At least in the read between the lines / hiding in plain sight style of Apple.
The company is unveiling a new and presumably next major computing platform at a quality level only they could possibly deliver.
So the relative quiet / lack of comment may be in deference to the gravity of that work.
That said, these changes are too big to ignore—-we should at least hear language that acknowledges the major developments in AI of late at WWDC and some idea for how Apple is thinking about them.
Running ML on the device has been one of Apple's value propositions for a long time. They are currently silent on everything that's unfolding, but I expect them to at least mention something and WWDC (and trying to run that something on the device)