It’s not very good though and with 6 GB of memory iPhones would struggle anything else alongside it so forget multitasking or even running the full OS while it’s loaded..
Almost all Apple devices (including most Macs) have very low amounts of memory so Apple hadn’t really positioned themselves that well if their goal is running LLMs locally.
You don't need a "phone AI" to solve general relativity.
You need it to understand what you want to do within the limited scope of the phone.
Basically I want Apple's AI to do what Shortcuts is capable of today, but instead of a janky Scratch programming style, I want it to respond to speech.
> M4 debuting on an iPad is also posturing for local compute as well.
Wouldn’t memory be a much bigger bottleneck? You don’t really need a particularly fast a CPU/GPU to run most basic models that couldn’t even fit into the amount of memory that Apple is offering on their devices (especially if you still want to run other apps).
Constantinople was the center of the empire long before Italy and Rome were lost (and the Byzantine empire controlled the city of Rome itself until the 750s).
It’s a bit like saying that Angles/English stopped being “English” after they moved from northern Germany/Denmark to the modern territory of Britain.
At least for several centuries the “Byzantine” Empire was the Roman Empire and was undoubtedly recognized as such both in the west and east.
> them, the constitution of their political order dated to 753 BC with the founding of Rome, even after they lost Rome.
I’m not sure they were particularly bothered by that. The late Roman/Byzantine empires was over everything the universal “Christian Empire” and being a true Orthodox-Catholic Christian basically became synonymous to being Roman the pagan past prior to Constantine was mostly ancient history by the middle ages and had limited if any influence on their self-identity.
There was bo bloodline though. Until quite late (much to its detriment) the empire maintained some of its original “republican” character and the emperors derived their legitimacy from the will of God and the people rather than inherited it (which resulted in endless civil wars). Unlike in Europe in the medieval and the succeeding periods your bloodline/dynasty was secondary to your ability to take and hold power effectively making emperors closer to modern dictators than kings in some ways.
This is one of many ways the Russian claim to be the "Third Rome" is and was bullshit. The Eastern Roman Empire ended in 1453 with the fall of Constantinople, and it was the last polity with a credible claim to the continuation of the Roman Empire of old.
To be fair there was nothing unusual from the Roman perspective about there being 2 emperors. Even during the Byzantine period it was not particularly uncommon for heirs to be crowned as “co-emperors”. Despite effectively becoming a monarchy the empire retained some “republican” traits with the emperor reigning with the consent of God and the people of Rome.
> I’m not convinced Zhao will be a pest on release
He will, as long as he believes that he can do something without getting caught. He probably just decided that giving himself up and pleading guilty was the more rational choice the time and would allow him to get back to being a fulltime grifter much sooner
Based on some reports that’s way below their estimates and they were forced to cut production even before releasing it in other markets. That’s basically the definition of a “flop”..
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