Apple unveils the Apple Intelligence on-device foundation model

Apple Intelligence on-device foundation model unveiled — about 3 billion parameters, 3.7 bpw on average, TTFT of about 0.6 ms/token and 30 tokens per second on iPhone 15 Pro. Adapters loaded dynamically

Why it matters

The first large-scale case of OS-level on-device LLM integration

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Officialmachinelearning.apple.comhttps://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models

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