AFM 3 Core Advanced

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3.0major

Third-generation Apple Foundation Model with 20B parameters using sparse activation. First on-device Apple model to exceed 3B parameters and support native multimodal capabilities.

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Apple releases AFM 3 lineup: 20B-parameter on-device model and cloud AI running on Google's Nvidia infrastructure

Apple announced five third-generation foundation models at WWDC26, headlined by AFM 3 Core Advanced—a 20-billion-parameter sparse model that runs on-device by activating only 1-4 billion parameters at a time. For the first time, Apple extended Private Cloud Compute to third-party infrastructure, with AFM 3 Cloud Pro running on Nvidia GPUs in Google Cloud.

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