Apple Intelligence is made possible by Apple’s silicon efforts as a whole, as a new interview reveals. And apparently, those efforts took a big shift all the way back in 2017 in preparation for AI.
The Circuit podcast with Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg just published a new episode featuring an interview with Apple execs Tom Boger and Tim Millet.
Their conversation focuses on Apple silicon, and covers the relationship between AI and the company’s silicon work.
We learn that the first Neural Engine was created as an extension of Apple’s computational photography ambitions, but it then set them up for success in AI.
Here’s an excerpt that relates to a 2017 decision paving the way for AI on M1 devices:
We introduced [the Neural Engine] in 2017, but another interesting thing happened in 2017, that was the paper that got published, Attention is All [You Need]. This was a paper that sort of led to the transformer networks…Well, my team was paying …
