"With these frameworks and new chips, developers can run and fine-tune large AI models locally on their Mac," Apple said.

Apple is upgrading two of its most powerful desktop computers as the company moves further in implementing artificial intelligence into its products, unveiling new Mac Mini and Mac Studio models designed to run increasingly sophisticated AI models directly ...

During the WWDC26 keynote, Apple announced its third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), comprising five models, some of which are local, some of which are cloud-based, and one of which lives in Google’s servers running on Nvidia chips.

The headline from Apple’s developer conference was a reborn Siri. The more interesting story sits underneath it: the AI models Apple built to run the thing, one of which is far too big to fit in an iPhone’s memory, yet runs on the device anyway.