PrismML, a startup that uses mathematical wizardry to shrink the size of large language models, could be used to bring more advanced AI capabilities to iPhones in the future.
Apple wants to bring bigger AI models to the iPhone
Apple wants to bring bigger AI models to the iPhone
The company has already been able to compress the 54GB Qwen 3.6 model to just 4GB. And, importantly, the technology that it uses doesn’t impact the model’s performance.
Apple is already keen to find ways to shrink LLMs that would normally run on servers. The company prefers such models to run on-device, but has so far been limited by the huge amount of data that more advanced models require.