Apple (AFM)

Apple trains multimodal and language foundation models for Apple Intelligence and on-device inference across its hardware, emphasizing compact models that run on Apple silicon alongside larger server models. It published OpenELM weights in April 2024 and shipped Apple Foundation Models to devices from 2024 onward.

Ecosystem functionThe largest on-device inference deployment in existence, which makes its model choices a constraint on the whole edge-silicon market.

Business modelHardware and ecosystem services