What chips were used to train the Apple ai models?
Asked on 07/31/2024
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Apple's AI models are trained using Apple Silicon, which includes the CPU, GPU, and neural engine. The unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon allows for efficient training and inference of machine learning models. Specifically, the powerful GPU excels at computations required for optimizing modern neural networks, and the unified memory architecture enables the use of larger models and batch sizes without the need for data copies between the CPU and GPU.
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