I recently experimented with Apple's Foundation Models framework, and I came away impressed at the speed and accuracy of the LLM. You can't ask it to build you a web app, but it can reliably translate a written instruction into tool use within your native app. I think there's a lot of merit to Apple's approach, using specialist tiny models like Ferret-UI Lite, though I don't think we'll see the full fruits of their labor for another year or two.
But it's a vision that I can get behind, where basic tasks like transcription, computer use, in-app tool, image understanding, etc, are local, secure and private.
I recently experimented with Apple's Foundation Models framework, and I came away impressed at the speed and accuracy of the LLM. You can't ask it to build you a web app, but it can reliably translate a written instruction into tool use within your native app. I think there's a lot of merit to Apple's approach, using specialist tiny models like Ferret-UI Lite, though I don't think we'll see the full fruits of their labor for another year or two.
But it's a vision that I can get behind, where basic tasks like transcription, computer use, in-app tool, image understanding, etc, are local, secure and private.
direct to paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26539