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MBCook
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Apple provided different models to different iPhones?

So due to hardware capabilities the iPhone 20 Pro gets an X billion parameter version but the regular 20 gets only gets (2/3 * X) billion?

That would provide an interesting point of hardware differentiation between the regular and pro models, as well as between each model year.

nullpoint420
I could 100% see this, and ironically it makes sense. I can totally envision an Apple exec announcing this at a keynote.

“We’re proud to announce that the iPhone 21 is our most performant iPhone yet - capable of running models of up to 20 billion parameters. That’s over 2x the amount on iPhone 20.”

Or something like that.

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ZeroGravitas
Does it make sense for a single model to be used for all on device LLM tasks or for each app to provide its own customized one?

My gut feel is the former but not sure if that's actually true.

jerrythegerbil
The announcement of FunctionGemma, the announcement of Apple partnering with Google’s Gemini, and now Apple can create smaller on-device AI models.

It’s been clear since December of last year what the planned trajectory and partnerships would be.