Apple Taps NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs In Google Cloud To Power Next-Gen Siri AI

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Apple has formed a powerful tech triumvirate by partnering with Google and NVIDIA to supercharge its next-generation AI ecosystem. Announced at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the partnership integrates NVIDIA Blackwell B200 hardware into Google Cloud, which allows Apple to scale its proprietary cloud infrastructure while doubling down on its commitment to user security.

The alliance centers around the third generation Apple Foundation Models (AFM 3), which power next-gen Apple Intelligence features like the heavily upgraded Siri. While smaller AI tasks will continue to run locally on iPhone and Mac silicon, more complex reasoning and multi-step agent actions require some extra muscle. Thus, Apple developed AFM 3 Cloud Pro, a massive model optimized specifically for NVIDIA GPUs.

Historically, Apple has guarded its ecosystem by keeping data processing within its own custom-built data centers. However, the sheer demands of high-level generative AI have driven the company to look beyond...

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