Apple Private Cloud Compute
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Apple has some impressive privacy technology for Apple Intelligence”
“There's no way for Siri or anybody else to know anything about a transaction using Private Cloud Compute”
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“it's a well-thought-out system under those constraints”
“"Private Cloud Compute hardware security starts at manufacturing" really stood out to me.”
“It’s intended to allow cloud computation on data without making the data available to anyone.”
Caveats and dissent
“They invested a ton in their Private Cloud Compute though, but are barely using their capacity.”
“The Private Cloud Compute push does not inspire great confidence”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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- Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac 1 mention
- macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage 1 mention
- Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts 1 mention
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All comments 20
“Apple has some impressive privacy technology for Apple Intelligence”
“There's no way for Siri or anybody else to know anything about a transaction using Private Cloud Compute”
“it's a well-thought-out system under those constraints”
“so it would probably run on just about anything”
“"Private Cloud Compute hardware security starts at manufacturing" really stood out to me.”
“https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/”
“It’s intended to allow cloud computation on data without making the data available to anyone.”
That seems to conflict with the recent security blog that says they are using Google Cloud infra and NVIDIA GPUs with PCC now [0]. They are allowing it to run on Intel and NVIDIA and Google chips meeting certain requirements now too instead of just Apple silicon because they think they’re secure enough now, but I suspect this decision might have been pushed by the need for Siri to be useful. I still definitely think
“I think their approach is fascinating.”
“The whole point of it is that nobody can access the data, not even the people running the servers.”
“Hopefully they scale this up to all apps in time”
“Apple's PCC is the best option for this kind of offload that exists.”
“They invested a ton in their Private Cloud Compute though, but are barely using their capacity.”
“is this marketing or is just relating what they did to keep things secure?”
“That exists but it's only for iUsers running Apple models”
“The Private Cloud Compute push does not inspire great confidence”
“it won't be mined for ads, etc.”
“has an explicit design goal to mitigate your point 1”
“the system is very carefully designed to give Apple themselves no avenue to exploit without detection”
“Apple's approach, and certain other systems such as AWS's Nitro Enclaves, aim at this last step of the problem”