Even Apple Is Renting Its AI Now
Apple just admitted it cannot build frontier AI alone. Here is what that settles for everyone below it, in under 60 seconds.
Apple opened WWDC with the one admission nobody expected from the privacy-and-full-stack company: it cannot build frontier AI alone. The rebuilt Siri sends its hardest queries to cloud models Apple co-developed with Google, running on Nvidia GPUs in Google's cloud — not Apple silicon, not Apple's data center. When even Apple decides renting beats building, the buy-versus-build question is settled for everyone below it; the winning move is integration, not invention. The real shift for you: the vendor conversation moves from "which model" to "whose cloud is this running on, and who sees the data." That question is coming to your stack next.
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