Apple's Collaboration with Google on TPUs

Why did Apple choose TPU vs. Nvidia's GPU?

Apple recently revealed that they’re collaborating with Google on training and deploying their proprietary Apple Intelligent LLM. A key takeaway from the news is that the training was conducted using Google’s TPUs, rather than the more commonly used Nvidia GPUs. Specifically, Apple utilized TPUv4 and TPUv5 to train two foundational models. The first mod…