On June 8, Apple announced the expansion of its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) capabilities to third-party platforms, partnering with Google and NVIDIA to run Apple Intelligence-related computing power on Google Cloud. PCC is a privacy-preserving computing system designed by Apple specifically for AI cloud processing, aimed at ensuring the security and privacy of user data when handling Apple Intelligence requests. Initially introduced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2024, the system operates on dedicated servers powered by Apple's custom chips, employing stateless computing, end-to-end encryption, and other technologies to ensure that user data is used solely for fulfilling requests and is immediately deleted without a trace after processing. With this expansion to Google Cloud, Apple will leverage NVIDIA's GPU resources alongside its own privacy-preserving technologies to further enhance the performance of Apple Intelligence, while strictly adhering to Apple's privacy standards to ensure that user data does not directly interact with Google's code or models.
