One Foundation Model runs on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google’s cloud and some Google proprietary model data used to refine Apple’s Models.
Apple has shared new details about the technology behind its latest Apple Intelligence platform, explaining how its new Apple Foundation Models (AFM) work and clarifying the company’s relationship with Google. During a post-WWDC technical discussion, Apple executives said the company does not use Google’s Gemini models, Google Search, or Google Assistant infrastructure to power Siri or Apple Intelligence
Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering:
“Of course, we don’t 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 deploy 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’t use Google Search or anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.”
Source: The Mac Observer NB: Apple introduced five foundation models.
AFM Core(used for expressive voices and invitation capabilities on device)** AFM Core Advanced**(on device)** AFM Cloud****AFM Cloud Image** image generation and editing tools, including spatial reframingAFM Cloud Pro complex reasoning and agentic actions; Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google’s cloud
These models are custom-built for Apple Silicon, trained using proprietary data, and refined using outputs from Gemini frontier models. The company emphasized that there is no direct use of Gemini itself.
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