Ollama is supercharged by MLX's unified memory use on Apple Silicon

Machine learning researchers using Ollama will enjoy a speed boost to LLM processing, as the open-source tool now uses MLX on Apple Silicon to fully take advantage of unified memory.

Malcolm Owen 2 months ago 1

Apple buys audio AI firm Q.ai as it scrambles to upgade Siri

Apple has confirmed its purchase of Israeli startup Q.ai, a company working on technology to help devices like iPhones better understand the spoken word in challenging conditions.

Oliver Haslam 4 months ago 17

Apple AI research shows how MLLMs understand, generate, search for images

Apple's researchers continue to focus on multimodal LLMs, with studies exploring their use for image generation, understanding, and multi-turn web searches with cropped images.

Marko Zivkovic 5 months ago 1

macOS Tahoe 26.2 will give M5 Macs a giant machine learning speed boost

Machine learning researchers using MLX will benefit from speed improvements in macOS Tahoe 26.2, including support for the M5 GPU-based neural accelerators and Thunderbolt 5 clustering.

Mike Wuerthele and Malcolm Owen 7 months ago 13

Apple's research explains how AI can identify bugs in code and generate QE tests

New papers on Apple's machine learning blog detail how AI can be used for faster, cheaper, and more effective QE testing, as well as for bug fixing and identification.

Marko Zivkovic 8 months ago 1

Apple's in-house chip play has a big AI payoff in the future

Apple's decision to design its own chips has helped it exert more control over the capabilities of the iPhone 17 lineup. It will also help further its AI ambitions.

Malcolm Owen 9 months ago 8

Bernstein restarts AAPL coverage with $290 price target

Bernstein is restarting its coverage of Apple and has given its shares a price target of $290, as it sees a favorable future for Apple Intelligence and Apple's on-device AI processing efforts.

Malcolm Owen 9 months ago 2

Four more employees depart Apple, join other AI efforts

Apple's AI employee pool is continuing to very slightly shrink, but the departure of four non-executive workers is still not a worrying brain drain to the company.

Malcolm Owen 9 months ago 4

Apple machine learning privacy workshop talks help promote AI security

Apple has shared recordings of talks from its workshop about privacy and machine learning, demonstrating how it is considering how to protect user data while it is processed using AI.

Malcolm Owen 10 months ago 6

Apple researchers take aim at AI hallucinations and true conversations

Apple Intelligence researchers have released a whole series of new academic papers concerned with furthering AI's ability to be personalized and understanding how errors occur.

William Gallagher 11 months ago 8

How Apple made AI in iOS 26 more helpful & more private

A recent machine learning update from Apple reveals how iOS 26 brings faster, safer AI that was trained without your texts, your photos, or your permission.

Andrew Orr 11 months ago 3

Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware

A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications for Nvidia hardware, by developing on an Apple Silicon Mac and exporting it to CUDA.

Malcolm Owen 11 months ago 4

Apple researching AI agent that can describe Street View scenes to the blind

Apple engineers have detailed an AI agent that accurately describes Street View scenes. If the research pans out, it could become a tool to help visually impaired people virtually explore a location in advance.

Malcolm Owen 11 months ago 0

Apple researchers work to stop AI from taking actions you didn't approve

AI agents are learning to tap through your iPhone on your behalf, but Apple researchers want them to know when to pause.

Andrew Orr 11 months ago 6

AI models analyzing audio from AirPods could determine a user's heart rate

Apple's latest research reveals how models made for speech recognition can determine your heart rate by processing phonocardiograms, which could be used in AirPods.

Marko Zivkovic 1 year ago 1

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