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Apple Debuts New AI Models Built With Gemini

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Apple's AI upgrade has been rumored for a long time, but we got a look Monday at the WWDC developers conference, when the company announced new Apple Intelligence models it built in a partnership with Google, using that company's Gemini technology.

Apple Intelligence is expected to be built into lots of Apple tools, especially a revamped Siri personal assistant.

"We believe that truly helpful AI must be centered around you and your needs," Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, said during the WWDC keynote video presentation.

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Some things about Apple's AI aren't really new: The company is leaning particularly heavily toward on-device AI, meaning smaller models built to run on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, rather than in the cloud. It also touted privacy as a cornerstone, noting...

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