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APPLE UNLEASHES A SWARM OF MAC MINIONS TO SHARE GPU RESOURCES FOR LARGE AI TASKS

theregister.com3 min read

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Apple researchers have developed Minions, a distributed system that pools unused GPU capacity across Apple Silicon Macs for AI workloads. The approach has reportedly reduced some internal inference job wait times from more than ten hours to minutes.