Apple on Monday announced “Apple Intelligence,” a new personal intelligence system for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that’s designed to understand personal context and provide users with helpful, relevant information. Following the announcement, Apple shared an overview of two of the artificial intelligence models that will power these upcoming features.
“Apple Intelligence is comprised of multiple highly-capable generative models that are specialized for our users’ everyday tasks, and can adapt on the fly for their current activity,” explained the tech giant.
“The foundation models built into Apple Intelligence have been fine-tuned for user experiences such as writing and refining text, prioritizing and summarizing notifications, creating playful images for conversations with family and friends, and taking in-app actions to simplify interactions across apps.”
According to Apple, two of the models at the heart of Apple Intelligence include a ~3 billion parameter on-device language model and a larger, server-based language model that runs exclusively on Apple Silicon-based servers and employs the company’s “Private Cloud Compute” framework to ensure privacy.
The company went on to highlight its focus on responsible AI development, citing its “Responsible AI principles” of empowering users with intelligent tools, representing users, designing with care, and protecting privacy.
“These principles are reflected throughout the architecture that enables Apple Intelligence, connects features and tools with specialized models, and scans inputs and outputs to provide each feature with the information needed to function responsibly.”
These two foundation models, trained on Apple’s open-source AXLearn framework, are part of a larger family of models created to support users and developers. Other members of this collection include a coding model that will be integrated into Xcode and a diffusion model for visual generation. Apple said it plans to share more information on this broader family of AI models soon.
To learn more about how Apple trains, optimizes, evaluates, and implements its AI models, head over to Apple’s Machine Learning blog. Apple Intelligence will be available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac models with M1 chips and later starting this fall.
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