{"id":67945,"date":"2026-06-09T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/67945\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:09:40","slug":"new-apple-foundation-models-contain-none-of-googles-gemini-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/67945\/","title":{"rendered":"New Apple Foundation Models contain ‘none’ of Google’s Gemini Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Siri<\/a>Siri AI takes full advantage of the bold new architecture for Apple Intelligence, including the next generation of Apple Foundation Models that run on device and on servers using Private Cloud Compute.<\/p>\n

Craig Federighi, Apple\u2019s SVP of Software Engineering, held a post-keynote press briefing on Monday (reported by 9to5Mac<\/a>) alongside AI VP Amar Subramanya, Siri lead Mike Rockwell, and software VP Sebastien Marineau-Mes. The group walked through the development of the third-generation AFM family and how it powers Apple Intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of Google Assistant we use is none,\u201d Federighi said, emphasizing that Apple relies on none of the Gemini models Google deploys to its customers, none of Google\u2019s client-side code, and no Google Search infrastructure as its knowledge backbone.<\/p>\n

Of course, we don\u2019t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these models, we use none of the models that Google deploys to their customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to the knowledge base, we of course don\u2019t use Google Search or anything like that as the foundation of our system. \u2014 Craig Federighi, Apple\u2019s SVP of Software Engineering<\/p>\n

Hartley Charlton for MacRumors<\/a>:
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\nSubramanya outlined the new AFM family, which spans two on-device models and three server-side models. The on-device tier consists of AFM Core, a next-generation dense architecture model, and AFM Core Advanced, which uses a sparse architecture and is natively multimodal.<\/p>\n

Subramanya said AFM Core Advanced is \u201cunlike any on-device model we\u2019ve run before,\u201d enabling new features including invitation and expressive voices without any cloud requests. On the server side, AFM Cloud handles latency-optimized Private Cloud Compute requests, while AFM Cloud Image powers image generation and editing features including spatial reframing.<\/p>\n

The key detail on the Google collaboration came in Subramanya\u2019s description of how these four models were trained. \u201cAll of these are custom built for Apple Silicon, trained using proprietary data with reinforcement learning and refined using outputs from Gemini frontier models,\u201d he said, making clear that Google\u2019s contribution was distillation-based, not a wholesale adoption of Gemini.<\/p>\n

The fifth and most capable model, AFM Cloud Pro, is designed for agentic tool use and complex reasoning tasks, with quality that Subramanya said is \u201csimilar to Gemini frontier models.\u201d This model marks a departure from Apple\u2019s standard Private Cloud Compute setup.<\/p>\n

To run it, Apple worked with both Google and Nvidia to extend its private cloud infrastructure to Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google\u2019s cloud. Marineau-Mes said Apple wanted to use Nvidia\u2019s latest chips but required them to be configured so they couldn\u2019t read the contents of Apple\u2019s servers. A recent Nvidia technology called \u201cambiguous confidential compute\u201d provided the solution.\n<\/p>\n

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MacDailyNews Note: Read more in the full article here<\/a> and also see our own article posted yesterday: Apple\u2019s Siri AI is not \u2018Google Gemini with Apple branding\u2019; here\u2019s how it really works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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