Apple is using chips sourced from Amazon Web Services to handle searches, and it may also use them to pre-train Apple Intelligence AI models.

As reported by CNBC, Apple’s senior director of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Benoit Dupin, made a surprise appearance

Apple is using Amazon’s custom artificial intelligence (AI) chips to power services like search and might expand their use for training its own AI models, known as Apple Intelligence. The announcement came during Amazon Web Services' annual Reinvent conference,

Apple is utilising Amazon Web applications’ proprietary AI chips for applications like search and will assess if its most recent AI chip can be used to pre-train its models, such as Apple Intelligence.

Amazon.com's cloud unit on Tuesday showed new data center servers packed with its own AI chips that will challenge Nvidia, with Apple coming aboard as a customer to use them. The new servers, based on 64 of Amazon Web Services' Trainium2 chips,