Apple's M1 Chip is Exactly What Machine Learning Needs

The future of machine learning is at the "edge," which refers to the edge of computing networks, as opposed to centralized computing. In a centralized machine learning network, users send data to a server, which makes a prediction, and sends that back to the user. This is slower, more expensive, less reliable, and less secure than edge computing, where predictions are made directly on the user's device. The problem with edge computing is that mobile and IoT devices are generally weak and low-powered, while AI models often have intense compute requirements. Apple's M1 chip is the answer.