Apple’s new AI models could power on-device features on iOS 18 for iPhones

Apple is gearing up to introduce generative artificial intelligence features at its worldwide developers conference on June 10. Ahead of the developers-focused event, the technology giant has released small language models that could power the on-device AI features on iOS 18 for iPhones.

Researchers at Apple have released new OpenELM AI-models on the Hugging Face model library. OpenELM, which stands for “Open-source Efficient Language Models” is a series of four small language models that are capable of running on devices such as Phones and PCs.