By Thomas Richmond
Publication Date: 2026-06-09 22:26:00
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Craig Federighi confirmed Apple’s FM Cloud Pro runs on Nvidia GPUs inside Google Cloud, abandoning private infrastructure for its most demanding AI workloads.
Apple’s M-series private cloud ran for two years but couldn’t sustain agentic AI at scale, forcing the outsourcing decision.
Nvidia data center revenue surged 92% to $75 billion, while Google Cloud grew 63% to $20 billion with a $460 billion backlog.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the most vertically integrated company in tech, is turning to Nvidia and Google Cloud to power its most advanced AI workloads. According to CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos, Apple software chief Craig Federighi confirmed that the company’s new frontier language model, FM Cloud Pro, will run on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google Cloud for agentic workflows and complex reasoning.
Apple Breaks From Its Vertical Integration Playbook
Apple has built FM Cloud Pro to be on par with Google’s Gemini frontier models. As Sigalos reported on CNBC, “They are confirming that they’re going to be using NVIDIA GPUs in the context of Google Cloud to run this Frontier model. That is a big departure for them.”
Apple has spent years engineering an M-series-based private cloud to keep AI compute in-house, consistent with the privacy-first pitch it makes to…
