Google introduced the Tensor series of chips with the Pixel 6 series in 2021. It was meant to usher in a range of chips specially tailored by Google to keep up with its class-leading AI-based software features. Just three Tensor chips in, and many of Google’s new AI features need to be off-loaded to the cloud for processing.
Lol you wut?
Do you know how expensive conventional AI setups are? An unlocked AI chip on a phone would fast replace nVidia cards in the AI scene for low level researchers, especially those dealing with sensitive data for whom cloud access is not viable.
My laptop is $1500, and is just about viable for this kind of stuff. It took it three days non-stop to create a trading model for ~22 stocks, processing 10 years worth of data for each.
Now maybe it doesn’t mean much for the consumer, that’s true. It means a hell of a lot for small time developers though, including those developing the apps consumers use.