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Deep Dive Premium Jun 26, 2026

Apple's On-Device AI: Engineering Constraints and Choices

Apple Intelligence runs locally on billions of devices. Engineers explain the hardware-software co-design that makes on-device AI work — and what cloud still handles.

While competitors default to cloud inference, Apple bet on running AI models on the Neural Engine in your pocket. The engineering tradeoffs behind that bet are unlike anything in cloud-first AI...

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