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The launch of iOS 18 opened the door to the most significant leap forward in software for Apple: the arrival of artificial intelligence. Apple Intelligence marks a before
The launch of iOS 18 opened the door to the most significant leap forward in software for Apple: the arrival of artificial intelligence. Apple Intelligence marks a before and after, where giants like OpenAI have finally just put a grain of sand in place, which is an improvement in itself. ChatGPT will be an optional feature for calls where it can offer more than just Siri.
As an in-house development, it’s worth wondering why only the iPhone 15 Pro can run this model, leaving out all other models. Apple’s heads of artificial intelligence and software engineers answered this question.
Apple Intelligence will first come to devices configured in the United States later this year, and will also be available in Spanish in 2025. Problem? Only models of the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 16 family (we don’t know yet if it’s Pro only) will have access to these functions.
According to Apple, the reason for this is clear: the size of Apple’s neural engine prevents non-Pro models from working.
“Extracting large language models is incredibly expensive from a computational standpoint. It’s a combination of the bandwidth on the device, the size of Apple’s neural engine, and the pushing power of the device to be able to make these models fast enough to be useful. In theory, we could run these models on a very old device.” You can run it, but it will be so slow that it won’t be useful.
In order for you to have a little more information on this subject, it is very important to know that the iPhone 15 Pro has 8 GB of RAM and the iPhone 15 has 6 GB of RAM. This may be one of the keys to the inability of the Apple model, which will take up several gigabytes of space while running.
And it’s not just RAM: the iPhone 15 Pro uses the Apple A17 Pro chip, a processor with a much faster neural engine than the one used in the iPhone 15’s A16. Differences in hardware are very important here: which is best to run the Apple model.
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