“Both my iphone and my Windows laptop tell me that I already have AI at my fingertips. LOL”
This is called local AI done by the chips within. This is extremely week compared to on-line AI. Unless you are a dedicated fan of local/at home AI. There are local AI units you can buy that are in the thousands usually. You can also stack 4x Apple Studio to make a powerful AI cruncher for your home. There are a few YT videos on Studio Stacking because guess what! Apple loaned them out to at least 5 YTube influencers, to boost Apple’s AI rep that is currently pathetic.
My bet is that Apple is working hard at an Apple Silicon AI chip that will be next level, since they have a sweetheart deal/agreement with TSMC (think 3nm and lower)
Google and Amazon have their own designed in house AI chips for some of their datacenters. They spent years developing them.
As a quasi-retired software engineer.
My bet is that Apple is working hard at an Apple Silicon AI chip that will be next level,...
I don't know. I gave up believing that Apple would make a real effort to be in the business world (except for niche markets like publishing). Apple didn't seem to put any real effort in making their server OS work. I believe a recent version of Oracle is the first enterprise level DB that'll run on Apple OS. Maybe the AI market will change that mindset and we'll see Apple on the back-end soon.