Ethan B. Holland

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Apple AI News: Week Ending 04/12/2024

April 12, 2024

“@steph_palazzolo @erinkwoo As reported by Bloomberg, Apple is gearing up to overhaul its entire lineup of Macs with an upcoming AI-focused M4 chip family. Releases are planned to be starting in late 2024 and extending into early 2025. Going in-depth in tomorrow’s newsletter: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1778602090178224246

Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 Chips Starting in Late 2024 – MacRumors – https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/m4-ai-chips-late-2024/

Stop worrying about LLMs crawling the web. Start worrying about LLMs learning how to use computers and eating the entire concept of user interfaces. There will be no way to “block” AI because AI will be driving the operating systems. Entire new industries and disciplines are coming.

“Apple presents Ferret-UI Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1777542957383446691

“What are the key factors to improve Vision-Language-Models (VLMs)? 👀 @Apple released a very nice paper, “MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training” where they investigated the effects of architecture components and data choices for VLMs. MM1 includes https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1776240697219195221

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AI News #28: Week Ending 04/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

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