Does Apple care about third party use of the ANE? There are many iOS/iPadOS features that use it.
Not really. Apple software uses the neural engine all over the place, but rarely do others. Maybe this will change [1]
There was a guy using it for live video transformations and it almost caused the phones to “melt”. [2]
[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
[2] https://x.com/mattmireles/status/1916874296460456089
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Not really. Apple software uses the neural engine all over the place, but rarely do others. Maybe this will change [1]
There was a guy using it for live video transformations and it almost caused the phones to “melt”. [2]
[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
[2] https://x.com/mattmireles/status/1916874296460456089