They are a hardware company and will keep selling the best machine for AI use. Well done.
I'd love using Gemma4 as an example. but thinking of a user. if 10 Apps each uses same model and downloads it, the phone will be bloated.
I still didn't understand if Apple provided a way for multiple apps uses same on-device model (without tricky namespaces and permissions).
I didn't see anything suggesting that's the case.
And now given everybody now does this I guess the incentive to stop breaking stuff reduces even further.
Might as well have static binaries.
It’s a useful language though.
The framework's whole deal is that it lets you use the same API to target either the device built-in models, the Apple-hosted online models (Private Cloud Computer), or write your own shims to call out to arbitrarily hosted online models.
You can then dynamically route your calls to a different kind of model/provider, using system APIs, without having to write your own abstraction layer over "I want to use local model for this, but I want to use Claude for that", or having to integrate your own API integration with Anthropic/OpenAI APIs.
It abstracts things like tool calling in one place; and has a bunch of other niceties/oddities (it keeps the same "transcript" going, even if you dynamically switch providers/models during a session) and some other things.
Lol bro this is literally it this is the model they've been training (was Apple Foundation model not a big enough hint?)
Apple is offering developers with less than 2 million downloads free AI models via their servers https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/apple-bets-cheaper-ai-will...
I know this is from a developer perspective. But as a consumer this is just funny.
Layers are luxury and remove control and transparency.
Proxy (production)
For production, route requests through your own back end with .proxied. The relay at baseURL adds the Claude API credential server-side, so the app ships no key. The headers you provide are sent on every request so your proxy can authorize the caller.
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/cli-sdks-libraries/libra...
While expected, it’s still a bummer.
It's also smart for them to make sure the billing is going direct from Anthropic to the developer. The initial thought is "That means Apple's not taking a cut", but from the other side of it, developers who use this API are going to have to expose that cost to customers somehow, and that translates to subscription/InAppPurchase etc. on top of which Apple will get it's 30%.