OpenAI Purchases Tens of Thousands of Macs to Boost AI Training, Driving Apple's Mac Revenue Up 29%

August 31 - According to The Information, citing insiders at OpenAI, the company has purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio units for reinforcement learning training and Computer-use Agent tasks. Anthropic is also heavily renting Mac computing power through Amazon AWS. Apple's Mac business revenue grew 29% year-over-year in the latest quarter, reaching $10.4 billion, outpacing iPhone and becoming the fastest-growing segment in Apple's hardware business.