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Report: Apple interested in startup that runs giant AI models on iPhone without servers
9to5Mac • • technology
Key Points:
- Apple is reportedly interested in PrismML’s technology, which focuses on shrinking large AI models to enable on-device functionality with comparable intelligence to server-based models.
- PrismML has successfully compressed Qwen 3.6, a 27-billion-parameter open-source language model developed by Alibaba, to run on an iPhone 17 Pro, significantly surpassing typical mobile AI models in complexity.
- PrismML plans to release its open-source model on July 14, highlighting capabilities such as software development tasks.
- Apple has already held meetings with PrismML to explore potential uses of its technology, indicating ongoing discussions about integration or collaboration.
- Apple’s recent AI-related moves include acquiring the startup Q.ai for around $2 billion and collaborating with Google on the new Siri AI set to launch with iOS 27.
