It's not the hardware, it's the combination of good hardware and software. That's paraphrasing Steve Jobs. He also stated that one of the primary advantages Apple had was software with better usability, generally higher quality software.

> Modern hardware is responsible for AI

No, again, it's the hardware and software. Tensorflow is what formally sparked the AI boom that we're still rolling on, and of course it needed the underlying hardware.

The hardware does nothing without the software. Python and Linux are good software, to name two.