Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone
Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company’s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri’s work off the cloud.
PrismML chief executive Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Apple and other companies were evaluating its technology. He called the discussions very early and said it was unclear where they would lead, but that “things are progressing nicely.” Apple did not comment. The Information first reported Apple’s interest last week.
The startup is a Khosla Ventures-backed spinout from the California Institute of Technology. Caltech owns the underlying patents and licenses them exclusively to PrismML. The company raised a $16.25 million seed round in March.
What PrismML built
On Tuesday, PrismML released Bonsai 27B. It is a compressed build of Alibaba’s open-source Qwenmodel, not a new one trained from scratch. The company shrank it...
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