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What AI models does Apple Intelligence use?
Apple Intelligence runs on Apple Foundation Models (Apple), Apple On-Device (~3B) (Apple), Apple Server Foundation (Apple) and Third-party chatbot handoff (OpenAI), and routes requests between them.
- Models used
- 4
- Primary model
- Apple Foundation Models
- Public API
- Yes
- Last checked
- 2026-09-11
Model claims are labelled by how we know them: Apple Foundation Models — disclosed, Apple On-Device (~3B) — disclosed, Apple Server Foundation — disclosed and Third-party chatbot handoff — disclosed. "Disclosed" means the vendor says so in public; "inferred" means it was derived from documentation, headers or release notes.
Context window: Device-dependent.
Other stack signals: Swift, iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS.
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Tomorrow. “What AI models does Apple Intelligence use?” Tomorrow AI & Emerging Tech Index, AlienSquad, updated 2026-09-11. https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/q/what-models-does-apple-intelligence-use
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