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Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025

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Ethan Li (Taoyi), Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen (Taoyi), Chen Zhang (Taoyi), Xiyou Zhou (Taoyi), Jun Qin (Taoyi), Dian Ang Yap (Taoyi), Narendran Raghavan (Taoyi), Xuankai Chang (Taoyi), Margit Bowler (Taoyi), Eray Yildiz (Taoyi), John Peebles (Taoyi), Hannah Gillis Coleman (Taoyi), Matteo Ronchi (Taoyi), Peter Gray (Taoyi), Keen You (Taoyi), Anthony Spalvieri-Kruse (Taoyi), Ruoming Pang (Taoyi), Reed Li (Taoyi), Yuli Yang (Taoyi), Emad Soroush (Taoyi), Zhiyun Lu (Taoyi), Crystal Xiao (Taoyi), Rong Situ (Taoyi), Jordan Huffaker (Taoyi), David Griffiths (Taoyi), Zaid Ahmed (Taoyi), Peng Zhang (Taoyi), Daniel Parilla (Taoyi), Asaf Liberman (Taoyi), Jennifer Mallalieu (Taoyi), Parsa Mazaheri (Taoyi), Qibin Chen (Taoyi), Manjot Bilkhu (Taoyi), Aonan Zhang (Taoyi), Eric Wang (Taoyi), Dave Nelson (Taoyi), Michael FitzMaurice (Taoyi), Thomas Voice (Taoyi), Jeremy Liu (Taoyi), Josh Shaffer (Taoyi), Shiwen Zhao (Taoyi), Prasanth Yadla (Taoyi), Farzin Rasteh (Taoyi), Pengsheng Guo (Taoyi), Arsalan Farooq (Taoyi), Jeremy Snow (Taoyi), Stephen Murphy (Taoyi), Tao Lei (Taoyi), Minsik Cho (Taoyi), George Horrell (Taoyi), Sam Dodge (Taoyi), Lindsay Hislop (Taoyi), Sumeet Singh (Taoyi), Alex Dombrowski (Taoyi), Aiswarya Raghavan (Taoyi), Sasha Sirovica (Taoyi), Mandana Saebi (Taoyi), Faye Lao (Taoyi), Max Lam (Taoyi), TJ Lu (Taoyi), Zhaoyang Xu (Taoyi), Karanjeet Singh (Taoyi), Marc Kirchner (Taoyi), David Mizrahi (Taoyi), Rajat Arora (Taoyi), Haotian Zhang (Taoyi), Henry Mason (Taoyi), Lawrence Zhou (Taoyi), Yi Hua (Taoyi), Ankur Jain (Taoyi), Felix Bai (Taoyi), Joseph Astrauskas (Taoyi), Floris Weers (Taoyi), Josh Gardner (Taoyi), Mira Chiang (Taoyi), Yi Zhang (Taoyi), Pulkit Agrawal (Taoyi), Tony Sun (Taoyi), Quentin Keunebroek (Taoyi), Matthew Hopkins (Taoyi), Bugu Wu (Taoyi), Tao Jia (Taoyi), Chen Chen (Taoyi), Zirui Wang (Taoyi), Cha Chen (Taoyi), Xiaoyi Ren (Taoyi), Feng Nan (Taoyi), Josh Elman (Taoyi), Dong Yin (Taoyi), Yusuf Goren (Taoyi), Jeff Lai (Taoyi), Yiran Fei (Taoyi), Syd Evans (Taoyi), Muyang Yu (Taoyi), Guoli Yin (Taoyi), Yi Qin (Taoyi), Erin Feldman (Taoyi), Isha Garg (Taoyi), Aparna Rajamani (Taoyi), Karla Vega (Taoyi), Walker Cheng (Taoyi), TJ Collins (Taoyi), Hans Han (Taoyi), Raul Rea Menacho (Taoyi), Simon Yeung (Taoyi), Sophy Lee (Taoyi), Phani Mutyala (Taoyi), Ying-Chang Cheng (Taoyi), Zhe Gan (Taoyi), Sprite Chu (Taoyi), Justin Lazarow (Taoyi), Alessandro Pappalardo (Taoyi), Federico Scozzafava (Taoyi), Jing Lu (Taoyi), Erik Daxberger (Taoyi), Laurent Duchesne (Taoyi), Jen Liu (Taoyi), David Guera (Taoyi), Stefano Ligas (Taoyi), Mary Beth Kery (Taoyi), Brent Ramerth (Taoyi), Ciro Sannino (Taoyi), Marcin Eichner (Taoyi), Haoshuo Huang (Taoyi), Rui Qian (Taoyi), Moritz Schwarzer-Becker (Taoyi), David Riazati (Taoyi), Mingfei Gao (Taoyi), Bailin Wang (Taoyi), Jack Cackler (Taoyi), Yang Lu (Taoyi), Ransen Niu (Taoyi), John Dennison (Taoyi), Guillaume Klein (Taoyi), Jeffrey Bigham (Taoyi), Deepak Gopinath (Taoyi), Navid Shiee (Taoyi), Darren Botten (Taoyi), Guillaume Tartavel (Taoyi), Alex Guillen Garcia (Taoyi), Sam Xu (Taoyi), Victoria M onchJuan Haladjian (Taoyi), Zi-Yi Dou (Taoyi), Matthias Paulik (Taoyi), Adolfo Lopez Mendez (Taoyi), Zhen Li (Taoyi), Hong-You Chen (Taoyi), Chao Jia (Taoyi), Dhaval Doshi (Taoyi), Zhengdong Zhang (Taoyi), Raunak Manjani (Taoyi), Aaron Franklin (Taoyi), Zhile Ren (Taoyi), David Chen (Taoyi), Artsiom Peshko (Taoyi), Nandhitha Raghuram (Taoyi), Hans Hao (Taoyi), Jiulong Shan (Taoyi), Kavya Nerella (Taoyi), Ramsey Tantawi (Taoyi), Vivek Kumar (Taoyi), Saiwen Wang (Taoyi), Brycen Wershing (Taoyi), Bhuwan Dhingra (Taoyi), Dhruti Shah (Taoyi), Ob Adaranijo (Taoyi), Xin Zheng (Taoyi), Tait Madsen (Taoyi), Hadas Kotek (Taoyi), Chang Liu (Taoyi), Yin Xia (Taoyi), Hanli Li (Taoyi), Suma Jayaram (Taoyi), Yanchao Sun (Taoyi), Ahmed Fakhry (Taoyi), Vasileios Saveris (Taoyi), Dustin Withers (Taoyi), Yanghao Li (Taoyi), Alp Aygar (Taoyi), Andres Romero Mier Y Teran (Taoyi), Kaiwei Huang (Taoyi), Mark Lee (Taoyi), Xiujun Li (Taoyi), Yuhong Li (Taoyi), Tyler Johnson (Taoyi), Jay Tang (Taoyi), Joseph Yitan Cheng (Taoyi), Futang Peng (Taoyi), Andrew Walkingshaw (Taoyi), Lucas Guibert (Taoyi), Abhishek Sharma (Taoyi), Cheng Shen (Taoyi), Piotr Maj (Taoyi), Yasutaka Tanaka (Taoyi), You-Cyuan Jhang (Taoyi), Vivian Ma (Taoyi), Tommi Vehvilainen (Taoyi), Kelvin Zou (Taoyi), Jeff Nichols (Taoyi), Matthew Lei (Taoyi), David Qiu (Taoyi), Yihao Qian (Taoyi), Gokul Santhanam (Taoyi), Wentao Wu (Taoyi), Yena Han (Taoyi), Dominik Moritz (Taoyi), Haijing Fu (Taoyi), Mingze Xu (Taoyi), Vivek Rathod (Taoyi), Jian Liu (Taoyi), Louis D'hauwe (Taoyi), Qin Ba (Taoyi), Haitian Sun (Taoyi), Haoran Yan (Taoyi), Philipp Dufter (Taoyi), Anh Nguyen (Taoyi), Yihao Feng (Taoyi), Emma Wang (Taoyi), Keyu He (Taoyi), Rahul Nair (Taoyi), Sanskruti Shah (Taoyi), Jiarui Lu (Taoyi), Patrick Sonnenberg (Taoyi), Jeremy Warner (Taoyi), Yuanzhi Li (Taoyi), Bowen Pan (Taoyi), Ziyi Zhong (Taoyi), Joe Zhou (Taoyi), Sam Davarnia (Taoyi), Olli Saarikivi (Taoyi), Irina Belousova (Taoyi), Rachel Burger (Taoyi), Shang-Chen Wu (Taoyi), Di Feng (Taoyi), Bas Straathof (Taoyi), James Chou (Taoyi), Yuanyang Zhang (Taoyi), Marco Zuliani (Taoyi), Eduardo Jimenez (Taoyi), Abhishek Sundararajan (Taoyi), Xianzhi Du (Taoyi), Chang Lan (Taoyi), Nilesh Shahdadpuri (Taoyi), Peter Grasch (Taoyi), Sergiu Sima (Taoyi), Josh Newnham (Taoyi), Varsha Paidi (Taoyi), Jianyu Wang (Taoyi), Kaelen Haag (Taoyi), Alex Braunstein (Taoyi), Daniele Molinari (Taoyi), Richard Wei (Taoyi), Brenda Yang (Taoyi), Nicholas Lusskin (Taoyi), Joanna Arreaza-Taylor (Taoyi), Meng Cao (Taoyi), Nicholas Seidl (Taoyi), Simon Wang (Taoyi), Jiaming Hu (Taoyi), Yiping Ma (Taoyi), Mengyu Li (Taoyi), Kieran Liu (Taoyi), Hang Su (Taoyi), Sachin Ravi (Taoyi), Chong Wang (Taoyi), (Taoyi), Jane Li (Taoyi), Andrew Hansen (Taoyi), Javier Movellan (Taoyi), Christopher Neubauer (Taoyi), Hanzhi Zhou (Taoyi), Chris Chaney (Taoyi), Nazir Kamaldin (Taoyi), Valentin Wolf (Taoyi), Fernando Bermudez -Medina (Taoyi), Joris Pelemans (Taoyi), Peter Fu (Taoyi), Howard Xing (Taoyi), Xiang Kong (Taoyi), Wayne Shan (Taoyi), Gabriel Jacoby-Cooper (Taoyi), Dongcai Shen (Taoyi), Tom Gunter (Taoyi), Guillaume Seguin (Taoyi), Fangping Shi (Taoyi), Shiyu Li (Taoyi), Yang Xu (Taoyi), Areeba Kamal (Taoyi), Dan Masi (Taoyi), Saptarshi Guha (Taoyi), Qi Zhu (Taoyi), Jenna Thibodeau (Taoyi), Changyuan Zhang (Taoyi), Rebecca Callahan (Taoyi), Charles Maalouf (Taoyi), Wilson Tsao (Taoyi), Boyue Li (Taoyi), Qingqing Cao (Taoyi), Naomy Sabo (Taoyi), Cheng Leong (Taoyi), Yi Wang (Taoyi), Anupama Mann Anupama (Taoyi), Colorado Reed (Taoyi), Kenneth Jung (Taoyi), Zhifeng Chen (Taoyi), Mohana Prasad Sathya Moorthy (Taoyi), Yifei He (Taoyi), Erik Hornberger (Taoyi), Devi Krishna (Taoyi), Senyu Tong (Taoyi), Michael (Taoyi), Lee, David Haldimann, Yang Zhao, Bowen Zhang, Chang Gao, Chris Bartels, Sushma Rao, Nathalie Tran, Simon Lehnerer, Co Giang, Patrick Dong, Junting Pan, Biyao Wang, Dongxu Li, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Dongseong Hwang, Grace Duanmu, Eshan Verma, Sujeeth Reddy, Qi Shan, Hongbin Gao, Nan Du, Pragnya Sridhar, Forrest Huang, Yingbo Wang, Nikhil Bhendawade, Diane Zhu, Sai Aitharaju, Fred Hohman, Lauren Gardiner, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Yinfei Yang, Alper Kokmen, Frank Chu, Ke Ye, Kaan Elgin, Oron Levy, John Park, Donald Zhang, Eldon Schoop, Nina Wenzel, Michael Booker, Hyunjik Kim, Chinguun Erdenebileg, Nan Dun, Eric Liang Yang, Priyal Chhatrapati, Vishaal Mahtani, Haiming Gang, Kohen Chia, Deepa Seshadri, Donghan Yu, Yan Meng, Kelsey Peterson, Zhen Yang, Yongqiang Wang, Carina Peng, Doug Kang, Anuva Agarwal, Albert Antony, Juan Lao Tebar, Albin Madappally Jose, Regan Poston, Andy De Wang, Gerard Casamayor, Elmira Amirloo, Violet Yao, Wojciech Kryscinski, Kun Duan, Lezhi L

Outline

Apple introduces two multilingual, multimodal language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services. One is a 3 billion-parameter on-device model optimized for Apple Silicon through architectural innovations (including shared KV cache and 2-bit quantization-aware training). The other is a scalable server model built on a novel Parallel Track Mixture of Experts (PT-MoE) Transformer that combines track parallelism, mixed-expert sparse computation, and interleaved global-local attention. Both models are trained on large-scale multilingual and multimodal datasets derived from responsible web crawling, licensed corpora, and high-quality synthetic data, and further enhanced through supervised learning fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on a new asynchronous platform. The resulting models understand images and execute tool calls while supporting multiple additional languages. In public benchmarks and human evaluations, both the server and on-device models matched or outperformed similarly sized public baseline models. The new Swift-centric foundational model framework provides guided generation, constrained tool calls, and LoRA adapter tuning, allowing developers to integrate these features with just a few lines of code. The latest advancements in Apple's intelligence models build on Apple's responsible approach to AI, with safeguards like content filtering and locale-specific evaluation, as well as innovations like Private Cloud Compute, to protect user privacy.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
It offers both a lightweight on-device model optimized for Apple silicon and a scalable server model, increasing applicability to a wide range of applications.
Supports multilingual and multimodal features to provide a richer and more diverse user experience.
A new Swift-based framework allows developers to easily integrate Apple's underlying models.
We emphasize our commitment to a responsible approach to AI and privacy.
It has shown competitive performance in public benchmarks.
Limitations:
There is a lack of detailed information about the specifics and size of the dataset used, as well as the data collection process.
Specific technical details about Private Cloud Compute are limited.
There is no information on the model's environmental impact and energy consumption.
There is no mention of long-term maintenance and update plans.
A more detailed comparative analysis with other existing models is needed.
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