The Third Generation of Apple's Foundation Models (machinelearning.apple.com) AI

Apple says its third generation of Apple Foundation Models—built with Google and spanning two on-device models (AFM 3 Core and AFM 3 Core Advanced) and three server models running on Private Cloud Compute (AFM 3 Cloud, ADM 3 Cloud for image tools, and AFM 3 Cloud Pro)—is powering next-generation Apple Intelligence with privacy protections, new multimodal capabilities, and improved text/image performance versus 2025 baselines.