Artificial intelligence Apple Intelligence works in iOS 18 and other Apple representatives. However, it has a number of device restrictions: at least iPhone 15 Pro and iPad/Mac with M1 chip.
Journalist John Gruber of Daring Fireball asked Apple’s director of artificial intelligence/machine learning John Giannandrea, chief marketing officer Grega Joswiaki and director of software development Craig Federighi why the company set such a limit on the operation of AI.
Giannandrea: “When you run this function, it’s called inference, the inference of large language models, which is incredibly computationally intensive. The combination of device throughput, the size of the Apple Neural Engine cores, and device performance allows the models to run fast enough to be key. In theory, you could run these models on very old devices, but it would be so slow that it would be useless.”
Gruber: “So this isn’t a scheme to sell a new iPhone?”
Joswiak: “No, absolutely not. Otherwise we would only make this AI available on the latest iPads and Macs, right?”
Craig Federighi also said that running Apple Intelligence requires enormous power. Overall, it’s unusual for a system like this to run on an iPhone, and only the newest iPhone is capable of such science.
Federighi hinted that RAM is also another aspect that is needed for new AI features. For this reason, all Apple Intelligence-compatible devices have at least 8 GB of RAM.
Source: Iphones RU
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