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Apple’s new Foundation Models explained: on-device AI, cloud AI, and everything in between

During the WWDC26 keynote, Apple announced its third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), comprising five models, some of which are local, some of which are cloud-based, and one of which lives ...
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What's so amazing about the new AI, 'Apple Foundation Models'? It's a groundbreaking system that runs a 20 billion parameter multimodal model, 'AFM 3 Core Advanced,' on an iPhone.

At the core of the next-generation Apple Intelligence, which Apple announced at its annual developer conference 'WWDC26' in June 2026, are the Apple Foundation Models, which consist of five ...
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Apple's Foundation Models Now Run a 20B AI Model on iPhone in 2026

AFM 3 Core Advanced brings a 20-billion-parameter AI model to iPhone with no cloud needed. Announced at WWDC 2026, it boosted dictation preference by 44.7% and works offline. Here's what matters about ...