Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy letter on August 10 making the case that artificial intelligence should be spread broadly rather than controlled by a handful of companies or governments. He also announced that Meta will start releasing open-source AI models again.
Around the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 9 that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been testing memory chips from China's CXMT for use in iPhones and MacBooks as the company hunts for ways to ease a costly memory supply crunch.
Zuckerberg's letter, ****** led "The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future," argues that no single company or government should end up holding all the power that comes with superintelligent AI. It frames Meta's mission of putting the technology directly in people's hands as a safeguard against that outcome. To back that up, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) released the open-weight Muse Glimmer model on Monday, a 30-billion-parameter system small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, with plans to open the weights on Muse Spark 1.2 soon.
Apple's problem is a lot more concrete. Memory chip costs linked to growing AI demand have already forced the company to raise prices globally. CXMT, now the most valuable company listed in mainland China at a $520 billion market cap, could offer some relief, though U.S. export rules keep Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) from ordering custom chips. Any deal carries real political risk, as per WSJ.
Does spreading AI power around, as Meta argues, actually help solve a very real problem like the chip shortage squeezing Apple right now?
#open #platforms
Around the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 9 that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been testing memory chips from China's CXMT for use in iPhones and MacBooks as the company hunts for ways to ease a costly memory supply crunch.
Zuckerberg's letter, ****** led "The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future," argues that no single company or government should end up holding all the power that comes with superintelligent AI. It frames Meta's mission of putting the technology directly in people's hands as a safeguard against that outcome. To back that up, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) released the open-weight Muse Glimmer model on Monday, a 30-billion-parameter system small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, with plans to open the weights on Muse Spark 1.2 soon.
Apple's problem is a lot more concrete. Memory chip costs linked to growing AI demand have already forced the company to raise prices globally. CXMT, now the most valuable company listed in mainland China at a $520 billion market cap, could offer some relief, though U.S. export rules keep Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) from ordering custom chips. Any deal carries real political risk, as per WSJ.
Does spreading AI power around, as Meta argues, actually help solve a very real problem like the chip shortage squeezing Apple right now?
#open #platforms
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