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Apple app developers who need to add private, on-device generative AI features with structured output and tool calling
About Apple Foundation Models
The Apple Foundation Models framework lets developers perform tasks with Apple’s on-device model that specializes in language understanding, structured output, and tool calling. It provides access to the on-device large language model that powers Apple Intelligence, helping apps perform intelligent tasks specific to their use case. The text-based on-device model identifies patterns that allow it to generate new text appropriate for the request, and it can make decisions to call code written by the developer to perform specialized tasks. Developers can generate text content for a wide range of tasks, including summarization, entity extraction, text understanding, refinement, dialog for games, creative content generation, classification, and more. It also supports guided generation, allowing developers to generate entire Swift data structures with strong guarantees by using the Generable macro.
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Apple
Founded: 1976
United States
developer.apple.com/documentation/FoundationModels
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