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Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Your OS uses it efficiently, but fundamentally it also limits what app developers can do. They have to make apps with 2-6GB in mind.

Not everything needs a lot of RAM, but LLMs are absolutely an edge case where "more is better, and there's no way around it," and they aren't the only one.