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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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The dozens of "contributors" being presented in random order is, one would suppose, an anti-poaching tactic?

It's hard to know what it isn't for certain but there are many other reasons papers list contributors in a flat structure (be it random or alphabetical order). Particularly with large numbers of collaborators.

Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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The dozens of "contributors" being presented in random order is, one would suppose, an anti-poaching tactic?

It's hard to know what it isn't for certain but there are many other reasons papers list contributors in a flat structure (be it random or alphabetical order). Particularly with large numbers of collaborators.

"References" section sort of narrows the field anyway.

Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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

> The new Foundation Models framework gives access to developers to start creating their own reliable, production-quality generative AI features with the approximately 3B parameter on-device language model. The ∼3B language foundation model at the core of Apple Intelligence excels at a diverse range of text tasks like summarization, entity extraction, text understanding, refinement, short dialog, generating creative content, and more. While we have specialized our on-device model for these tasks, it is not designed to be a chatbot for general world knowledge. We encourage app developers to use this framework to design helpful features tailored to their apps

Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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The dozens of "contributors" being presented in random order is, one would suppose, an anti-poaching tactic?

Not very hard to look people up on LinkedIn and figure out who the core researchers are. I think this is just a very surface-level overview paper that encompasses a bunch of different research projects conducted by different teams, and it would be difficult to order the contributors in any meaningful way.

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The dozens of "contributors" being presented in random order is, one would suppose, an anti-poaching tactic?

As someone whose last name is near the end of the alphabet, that's not the first presumption I had seeing that page.

Re: Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

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

It does. You can use it directly on iOS 26 beta - without writing a line of code I can toy with the on-device model through Shortcuts on my 16 Pro. It’s not meant to be a general purpose chatbot… but it can work as a general purpose chatbot in airplane mode which is a novel experience.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/018AYAPEm06ALXciiJAsLGyuA

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f9IzuYQwmhLIcUIhIuDiudFw

The above took like 3 seconds to generate. That little box that says On-device can be flipped between On-device, Private Cloud Compute, and ChatGPT.

Their LLM uses the ANE sipping battery and leaves the GPU available.

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