alt Hacker NewsApple is in a much better boat than AMD or Intel. They have a gigantic warchest and can just snap up whoever looks like a leader coming out of the bubble burst.
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Gigachad • today at 4:40 AM
It's becoming increasingly clear that there is no moat on models. The winners will be the ones who have existing products and ecosystems they can tie AI in to. You will pay adobe for credits because that will be the only AI that works in Photoshop, you will pay microsoft because only theirs will work on your microsoft cloud apps.
Open AI has nothing. Their tech will rapidly be devalued by free models the moment they stop lighting stacks of cash on fire.
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Counterpoint: Apple's opportunity to invest in GPGPU architectures was ~2017 when Apple Silicon was in it's design stages. Apple always knew they were surrendering a large market segment by depreciating CUDA and OpenCL, they just never knew how big the market segment would get. Their liquid cash is wasted mid-bubble, and waiting for it to pop is not a realistic timeline anymore.
Arguably, Apple isn't even in a boat right now. At least AMD and Intel both ship hardware that synergizes with CUDA - Apple jumped off that ship, their hardware doesn't even come up in infrastructure discussions where AMD, Intel and Nvidia are taken for granted.