M3 Chip

After shying away from “AI” for a few years, Apple has finally started to tout the “AI” capabilities of its computers. Good riddance, for I have been fairly critical of their apathy towards this move towards “augmented intelligence.” It all started with the recently announced M3 MacBooks. The star of the new chip is the GPU, with a new unique approach to caching. (You can read my analysis of the M3 Chip, and my review of the new laptop.) 

Using its hardware prowess is an obvious step for Apple, but company watchers have to be excited by the quiet moves they are making on the software front. They just released MLX, a new (machine learning) ML framework for Apple Silicon. This isn’t surprising — during the M3 MacBook launch, Apple was pretty explicit in saying that it was targeting the AI and ML community with its high-end machines. 

The framework, which seems to specifically leverage the