Apple announces the Foundation Models framework, which for the first time gives developers direct access to its on-device AI model powering Apple Intelligence
Apple at WWDC today announced Foundation Models Framework, a new API allowing third-party developers to leverage the large language models …
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Discussion
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Apple has announced the Foundation Models framework which will let developers leverage its on-device AI models. — The pitch to developers is that they'll save cloud API costs. — The counterpoint is that if you have an Android app then you end up with vastly differing AI in yo…
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@natolambert
Nathan Lambert
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Apple exposing a developer API for their on device AI models is a major step in the right direction for them and the open model ecosystem. This is going to open up new feedback loops on models and a major platform for AI applications. [image]
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@jsngr
Jordan Singer
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all the SwiftUI it takes to run the on-device foundation model: [image]
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@natolambert
Nathan Lambert
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Excited to see how it goes! They should release the weights too to accelerate its adoption (even if it barely makes sense on other devices). Hopefully this makes it out of Beta unlike some other dev features (I'm a noob about wwdc). https://developer.apple.com/ ...
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@mathemagic1an
Jay Hack
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LLMs will be part of the standard library of languages It's a new primitive for programming
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@emollick
Ethan Mollick
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Apple doesn't report benchmarks for their AIs, reporting on an ill-documented head-to-head evaluation But even by their standards, Apple's latest on device models are mostly worse than the open Gemma 3-4B from Google or Qwen 3-4B And their server LLM is similar to Llama 4 Scout […
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@munster_gene
Gene Munster
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The most important WWDC update today was the announcement of the Foundation Model framework, which makes it easier for developers to integrate Apple Intelligence on device. It matters because, just like when the App Store launched in 2008, it's up to developers to build the apps…
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@gilbert
Ben Gilbert
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.@benthompson Apple listened to you opening up on-device models!! “Experiences that are smart, available when you're offline, and protect your privacy.” ...and offers developers the value that Apple uniquely can with a billion devices at the edge with free compute...
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@thisistechtoday
M. Brandon Lee
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The big focus that they're emphasizing is the Foundation Models framework. It seems there is a way to help things integrate between apps and media, even offline and privately—lots of questions. [image]
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@drbarnard
David Barnard
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I debated this with @_chuckyc recently, the idea of free AI use sounds great, but for mosts tasks, you want the best model possible, and that's not an Apple model on device.
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@inafried
Ina Fried
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New@axios: Apple opens its AI models up to developers, announces new Liquid Glass design interface even as critics worry the company is falling behind [image]
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@stephenrobles
Stephen Robles
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Apple introduced Foundation Models Framework that allows apps to use on-device LLM. Gonna be huge [image]
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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foundation models framework will be huge if the models are good, saving money on tokens is a giant pro for devs
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@maxwinebach
Max Weinbach
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Apple foundational model framework opens up the local LLM for free to any app [video]
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r/LocalLLaMA
r
on reddit
Apple is using a “Parallel-Track” MoE architecture in their edge models. Background information.
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r/linux
r
on reddit
macOS 26 introduces the Containerization Framework: “enables developers to create, download, or run Linux container images directly on Mac”
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@quinnypig.com
Corey Quinn
on bluesky
Every other major dev platform goes with Anthropic, so good work betting on the wrong horse. [embedded post]
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@dimillian
Thomas Ricouard
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Okay they've been cooking with Xcode + AI. It's not Cursor BUT it's packed!
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@dimillian
Thomas Ricouard
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Insane they're pulling this UI for Xcode. [image]
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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ChatGPT is now built-in to Xcode !!!! [image]
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@amos_gyamfi
Amos Gyamfi
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Xcode 26: Vibe Coding With ChatGPT & Local LLMs. WWDC25 [image]