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On - Is Apple Intelligence even possible?

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Loren

With the Apple Intelligence and Siri delays, people have speculated on why it’s late. Maybe it’s about getting the security right. Maybe it’s just buggy and taking longer than expected.[…] But what if Apple has discovered that it’s not actually possible? AI is entirely new, with new requirements that stress the limits of hardware. Apple is attempting to cram a clever intermingling of data and Siri features into 8 GB of RAM. As a comparison, the largest version of DeepSeek R1 can only be run on a brand new Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra and 512 GB of RAM.

Manton Reece

That’s an interesting thought.