Apple had the same choices as any other technology company with money to burn when it came to training its artificial intelligence models. It could have used its own chips, conducted training via cloud infrastructure, or gone the popular route and just bought billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia chips. Instead, it made a deal with the company that owns Google. Apple has been accused of being late to the artificial intelligence party. While its peers were busy pivoting to generative AI and pouring billions of dollars into training chips and cloud services, Apple’s public-facing image focused on…