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Apple wants to train AI on your private personal data
Introducing the Third Generation of Apple’s Foundation Models
Our next generation of Apple Intelligence is centered around our users, integrated deeply into our operating systems, and powered by a bold new architecture with privacy at its core.
At the heart of this architecture is our third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), a family of five foundation models custom-built in collaboration with Google. These span from on-device models to server-based models running on Private Cloud Compute.
Apple Foundation Models are built to unlock a wide range of helpful experiences for our users, like an entirely new Siri and intelligent tools that make everyday apps smarter and more useful.
This family of models includes two on-device models:
Our latest Apple Foundation Models also include three server-based models running on Private Cloud Compute, which ensures that user data is never stored or shared with anyone, including Apple. These models are:
AFM 3 Core, AFM 3 Core Advanced, and AFM 3 Cloud, along with ADM 3 Cloud, are all purpose-built for Apple silicon.
For AFM 3 Cloud Pro, we worked with Google and NVIDIA to extend Private Cloud Compute to NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud, while maintaining the same guarantees to protect our users’ privacy. More details are available on our Security Research Website.
Our third generation of Apple Foundation Models delivers significant advancements across capabilities and quality. In the following overview, we’ll dive deeper to explore the scalable architectures powering our on-device and server-based models, our training methodologies, and more.
We designed the architectures for both our on-device and server-side models to enable powerful Apple Intelligence experiences for our users, and we integrated our latest models deep into our operating systems.