> (If they are or can be, I’m interested)

Exactly. Currently I am training my models using Google Colab and then exporting the model to run on my MBP. Would be interesting if I could do it locally

Another interesting thing is that ( if this is for training ) this will become the only accelerated version of Tensorflow for macOS as: - No CUDA drivers for latest macOS - AMD ROCHm only supports Linux runtime

I’m hoping the M1 can be used for prototyping with small data sets, then final training on Google Colab with complete data sets.

Is this just opinion? Maybe they are designed ALSO for training. I wonder if this things can replace nVidia graphic cards on training? The neural core has a LARGE area on the chip design similar to the GPU area.