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Honestly if they are coming out with a paper now Apple has probably been working on it for a year or two at minimum . Next year releases of macOS / iOS are rumored to have LLMs as a feature .

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I don’t mean to discount this work, but this particular model is the product of a few months of work tops. It’s effectively LLava with different training data, targeted at a specific use case. While I’m sure there is a significant effort at multimodal LLMs within Apple, this is just a tiny corner of it.

They literally mention that they built on top of llava that was released half year ago.

What's the "literally" here? Try: They mention that they built on top of llava, which was released half a year ago.

In this context “literally” is being used to draw attention to the perceived obviousness of the information. Essentially saying “how could you not see this?”

In this context, "what's the literally here?" means that the author think the post would be better without it: it's too agressive, sarcastic, demeaning, etc. for example. Hence it's a false question.

It's actually funny because you answered a false question (potentially on purpose). Like:

"What the hell are you doing?!?" "Well Im stealing your car, obviously."

In this context, the verbose explanation to a rhetorical question seems to be the point of the comment, to reemphasize said aggression or sarcasm. It's actually funny because we both are doing the same thing, also potentially on purpose.

> Honestly if they are coming out with a paper now Apple has probably been working on it for a year or two at minimum

Why do you say that?

Academic papers can take that long …

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