The ongoing issue with Siri, Apple’s smart assistant, remains a point of concern as major updates have been postponed, along with news of executive reshuffling within Apple. According to sources from The New York Times, Apple is still working on revamping Siri and has not scrapped the project entirely. The first update is expected to roll out either in the fall of this year or by the end of the year, but it may not be as comprehensive as initially announced at WWDC 2024. Reports suggest that features like editing and sharing photos with friends are in the works.
Furthermore, there are discussions about the challenges Apple faced with acquiring GPUs for their AI development team. The company’s server has over 50,000 GPUs, but they are outdated models, over five years old. This led John Giannandrea, the head of the AI team, to request additional GPU purchases, which CEO Tim Cook approved. However, CFO Luca Maestri recommended cutting the budget by more than half and suggested Apple design and manufacture their own chips instead. Ultimately, Apple had to resort to renting cloud services from Google and Amazon for AI development.
TLDR: Siri updates are delayed, Apple executives reshuffled; GPU procurement challenges discussed; Apple resorts to using Google and Amazon cloud services for AI development.
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