Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has disclosed that the artificial intelligence models powering its AI system, Apple Intelligence, were trained on custom chips developed by Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google, not on the widely used chips from NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA). What Happened: Apple’s AI models were trained on Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), as per a technical paper released by the company on Monday. This announcement suggests that major tech companies are exploring alternatives to Nvidia for the training of cutting-edge AI. Nvidia’s GPUs have been the dominant choice f…