By Julie Clover
Apple is using Amazon Web Services’ Inferentia and Graviton AI chips to power its search services, Benoit Dupin, Apple’s director of machine learning and AI, said today at the AWS re:Invent conference (via CNBC).
Dupin said Amazon’s AI chips are “reliable, accurate, and capable of serving [Apple’s] customers around the world.” AWS and Amazon have a “strong relationship,” and Apple plans to test whether Amazon’s Trainium2 chip can be used to pre-train Apple Intelligence and other AI models. Today, Amazon announced the availability of the Trainium2 chip for lease.
Apple has been using AWS for more than 10 years for Siri, Apple Maps, and Apple Music. With Amazon's Inferentia and Graviton chips, Apple has seen a 40 percent efficiency improvement, and with Trainium2, Dupin says Apple expects to see up to a 50 percent efficiency improvement with pre-training.
Nvidia is the market leader when it comes to GPUs for AI training, but companies like Amazon are looking to compete with cheaper options.
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