Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
Taking Private Cloud Compute on the road
“This is the amount of the Google system we use, which is none,” says Federighi, standing in front of a blank slide in a much more intimate theater than the giant outdoor auditorium where he had introduced CEO Tim Cook a couple of hours before.
Federighi has just outlined a “traditional chatbot architecture”—a client app running on your device that reaches out to cloud-based models running on third-party servers. Those models can then reach out to Google Search or something similar “to [ground themselves] in world knowledge.”
Apple’s system still depends on an on-device model for simpler queries. In this year’s OS releases, most Apple Intelligence devices get AFM 3 Core, a new Gemini-based model co-developed by Google and Apple. Newer devices with at least 12GB of RAM and a relatively recent chip (M3 and newer for Macs, M4 and newer for...
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