"MacBook Air can also run optimized AI models, including large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models for image generation locally with great performance."
Worthless PR. Further down, another selling point is "MacBook Air supports cloud-based solutions, enabling users to run powerful productivity and creative apps that tap into the power of AI, such as Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Canva, and Adobe Firefly."
Wow. Until they support CUDA or more ML/AI implementations on their chips, this is just marketing speak.
I run Mixtral 8x-7B on my M1 max mpb with llamafile, and Stable Diffusion - the backend for both is running via Metal implementations for Pytorch et al...
But "supports cloud-based solutions" is a pretty lame way to sell it.
That's actually funny. My ThinkPad with Arch Linux also supports Microsoft 365, Canva, and Adobe Firefly! Since when are we advertising a list of "supported websites"?
