alt Hacker NewsAgreed, but I wonder how that plays out without them entering the frontier model space. I just downloaded the new foundation models cli and ran some inference on my Mac, it wasn't great, but it was neat to see. I asked which model it was using and it said gpt 4o mini.
An on-device, 100% private AI assistant seems like it could be so big that it could be a legitimate threat to the frontier model providers they are partnering with right now, imho.
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andriy_koval • today at 7:30 PM
> I wonder how that plays out without them entering the frontier model space
bet could be that this space will be commoditized: many good enough open weight models and multiple competing provides.
I think it'd be foolish to assume that they aren't already - they have a reputation of doing a lot more internally than ever comes to light. Smaller companies like mistral or thinking machines show that you don't even need that much resources to be semi-competitive, and comparatively Apple is a vertically integrated behemoth.
That said in a pinch they could also acquire / acquihire both of those companies without much thought.