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Apple is distilling Google Gemini into smaller chunks for on-iPhone AI processing

Apple is cutting down Google Gemini’s massive models into smaller and more secure parts through distillation, to create elements that are more suited to on-device Apple Intelligence processing.

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Apple’s pulling out chunks of Google Gemini for on-device processing

The deal Apple made with Google allows the iPhone maker to use Google’s Gemini AI models as a basis for its own updated AI. It now appears that the deal lets Apple use some techniques to make models that will work better for on-device processing than the mainly server-based Gemini itself.

It was previously known that Apple could adjust the Google Gemini model to respond to queries in specific ways. However, according to The Information on Wednesday, Apple has a lot more leeway in what it can do and access within the model.

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