Apple’s newly released AI models could show the future of artificial intelligence on iPhones

Apple researchers have released a slew of new AI models that offer a hint at how artificial intelligence might work on future iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other devices.

Andrew Griffin for The Independent:
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The company has largely been quiet on its plans for AI, as much of the rest of the tech industry has pivoted towards offering new artificial intelligence features and products.

Now, however, Apple’s release of what it called “OpenELM” might offer a hint at how those features could work. Apple says the name stands for “Open-source Efficient Language Models”, and that they are relatively small models specifically calibrated for certain tasks.

Apple’s developers said the release was made public in the name of “reproducibility and transparency”, which is “crucial for advancing open research, ensuring the trustworthiness of results, and enabling investigations into data and model biases, as well as potential risks”. It did not give any indication that they would be used in future products.

However, the fact that Apple is focusing on small and efficient models might be a hint at the way they will appear in the iPhone. Such small models are built specifically to run on consumer devices, rather than the large cloud services that are required to power some other, less efficient AI tools.

Apple appears to be looking to build AI models that can run on the iPhone itself, without sending data to its servers. That would be in keeping with Apple’s commitment to privacy, as well as helping to ensure that any AI-powered features run more quickly and do not rely on having a fast internet connection.

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MacDailyNews Note: Apple last December acquired Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Datakalab which specializes in on-device AI processing.
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