Is the foundation model planned to be a part of the OS, or will we need to keep checking for its availability in our iOS apps? It would be cool to develop an app that heavily uses it as its core, especially given its privacy and offline capabilities.
Foundation Models as part of OS
Hi there! I think if I'm understanding your question correctly that you're asking about the on-device SystemLanguageModel
or will we need to keep checking for its availability
The short answer is yes. The on-device foundation model is part of the OS as a core part of Apple Intelligence, but a user can choose to turn off Apple Intelligence in Settings > Apple Intelligence.
Additionally Apple Intelligence isn't available on some older phone models simply due to older hardware. Thus you'll need to keep checking the availability.
Hope that answers your question!
Thank you so much for answering my question @Apple Designer . It makes perfect sense architecturally, though it’s a a bit limiting for product design, it means local AI features have to be "nice-to-haves" rather than the core foundation of our UX.
you'll need to keep checking the availability.
Does this same user opt-in apply to PrivateCloudComputeLanguageModel via a LanguageModelSession session? If Apple Intelligence is disabled, is Private Cloud Compute completely gated off, or is there a separate availability tier for cloud-backed models?