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Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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Post by jonplackett »

bayindirh wrote: post #19
jonplackett wrote: post #16

Every time I see a paper from Apple I just feel like, OK so why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet? Why give this to developers if you haven’t been able to get Siri to use it yet? Does it not work or something? I guess we’ll find out when devs start trying to make stuff

> why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet? Probably Apple is trying to distill the models so they can run on your phone locally . Remember, most, if not all, of Siri is running on your device. There's no round trip whatsoever for voice processing. Also, for larger models, there will be throwaway VMs per request, so building that infra takes time.

It says there’s 2 models - one local. It’s already released to app developers to use locally I think (it was in the keynote for WWDC).

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Post by perfmode »

> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot.

> We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remove certain categories of personally identifiable information and to exclude profanity and unsafe material.

> Further, we continue to follow best practices for ethical web crawling, including following widely-adopted robots.txt protocols to allow web publishers to opt out of their content being used to train Apple’s generative foundation models. Web publishers have fine-grained controls over which pages Applebot can see and how they are used while still appearing in search results within Siri and Spotlight.

Respect.

Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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Post by alwillis »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

I wonder if we'll see these models running on the phone (aiPhone) hardware in the future.

As someone mentioned, this model is available in the beta version of iOS 26; it's also part of macOS 26, iPadOS 26 and visionOS 26. Anyone with a free developer account can install the developer betas; the public beta is expected next week.

There's a WWDC video "Meet the Foundation Models Framework" [1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286

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Post by geoffpado »

jonplackett wrote: post #21
bayindirh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet? Probably Apple is trying to distill the models so they can run on your phone locally . Remember, most, if not all, of Siri is running on your device. There's no round trip whatsoever for voice processing. Also, for larger models, there will be throwaway VMs per request, so building that infra takes time.

It says there’s 2 models - one local. It’s already released to app developers to use locally I think (it was in the keynote for WWDC).

The model now available to developers (in beta, not in released versions of iOS) is the same model that powers stuff like the much-maligned notification summaries from iOS 18. So your phone does have features that are powered by this stuff… you may just not be particularly overwhelmed by those features.

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Post by bitpush »

perfmode wrote: post #22

> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…

When Apple inevitably partners with OpenAI or Anthropic, which by their definition isnt doing "ethical crawling", I wonder how I should be reading that.

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Post by Daedren »

frankfrank13 wrote: post #26

AFAICT this is the first commercial model trying to be marketed as responsibly-sourced. Love it, but it also seems like the noise around this issue has died down. Is this for legal cover? Or more apple-privacy marketing

Stockholders are suing them over Apple Intelligence. Definitely legal cover.

Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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Post by jhickok »

bitpush wrote: post #27
perfmode wrote: post #22

> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot. > We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remo…

When Apple inevitably partners with OpenAI or Anthropic, which by their definition isnt doing "ethical crawling", I wonder how I should be reading that.

They already partnered with OpenAI, right?
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