Perplexity As an Apple Acquisition
To me @perplexity_ai is starting to look like an appealing @Apple acquisition. A 5-year-old M1 Macbook Pro is already incredibly capable with local models. Some thoughts—
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Local models are becoming better at an incredible rate. Gemma and Qwen models running locally can do probably 90% of what people use ChatGPT for—dad jokes, recipes, editing an email.
Everyone keeps saying that Apple is sitting out the AI race, but they are playing a different game. They don't need to spend money on data centers, because the Apple's future data centers are your Macbooks, iPads and iPhones.
What is missing is the remaining 10% when the task will need more compute. And that's the role @perplexity_ai is playing here. It's a model for how @Apple will become a dominant AI player.