AI · SEMICONDUCTOR · FACT CHECK
SKD WIREMostly True
Meta and Apple, once adversaries in the platform wars, have cooperated to enable ultra-large AI models to run on Mac computers, according to materials reviewed across five primary sources, including Apple newsroom imagery and Meta's own media assets.
The claim centers on a striking shift: Meta and Apple, which have long competed across platforms and services, have worked together so that massive AI models — models at the scale of frontier LLMs — can operate on Mac hardware. The available materials point to Apple's latest Mac Studio lineup, shown in Apple newsroom images with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, as the hardware basis for this capability.
Apple's promotional materials for the new Mac Studio, featuring the M5 Max and M5 Ultra, and a related machine learning resource hosted on Apple's content delivery network, form the backbone of the evidence supporting the claim. A media asset appearing on a Meta-affiliated page suggests the company's involvement in the effort, though the exact division of roles between the two companies is not specified in the reviewed materials.
The reviewed materials do not specify which particular ultra-large AI models are supported, the technical details of how they run on Mac computers, or the precise terms of the Meta–Apple cooperation. The extent to which this represents a formal partnership versus coordinated technical work also remains unstated in the primary sources.
The claim that Meta and Apple, once enemies, have joined hands to run massive AI models on Mac computers is broadly consistent with the reviewed materials and primary sources, making the overall assessment Mostly True.
