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Apple Opens Free Private Cloud Compute Access: AFM 3 and What Developers Need to Know

Apple is giving App Store Small Business Program developers free access to AFM 3 models on Private Cloud Compute if their apps have fewer than two million first-time downloads. The five-model family includes the sparse 20B-parameter AFM 3 Core Advanced, which activates only 1–4B parameters on-device, and AFM 3 Cloud Pro on Google Cloud NVIDIA GPUs, refined with outputs from Gemini.

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Apple Foundation Models: Privacy-first Ecosystem AI with a 20B Sparse Model on Phones

Apple Foundation Models (AFM) is Apple's closed-ecosystem AI family. It evolved from a 3B dense model with LoRA adapters in 2024 into five models in 2026. AFM 3 Core Advanced runs a 20B IFP sparse architecture on phones while activating only 1–4B parameters; Cloud Pro runs on Google Cloud NVIDIA GPUs and is refined through Gemini distillation. There is no public API price or third-party benchmark, and access is limited to Apple's Foundation Models framework.

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