Apple never competed in the "AI race" in the first place, because they already knew they were already at the finish line.
This was really unsurprising [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40278371
> This is an obvious moat for Apple who can offer a cheaper alternative for training, inference AI server farms.
According to Bloomberg, Apple's inference server farms are a flop: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...
the chips [...] are not powerful enough to run the latest frontier models like Gemini, which the new Siri will be based on
> This is an obvious moat for Apple who can offer a cheaper alternative for training, inference AI server farms.
According to Bloomberg, Apple's inference server farms are a flop: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...