New AI features in iOS 18: what we know so far

AI features in iOS 18

There are a lot of rumors going around about the various AI features that Apple is working on. Bloomberg wrote that Apple sees iOS 18 as one of the largest updates to iOS, because it will have many new artificial intelligence features .

Journalist Mark Gurman wrote in July that Apple had created its own large language model called AppleGPT. The project is based on the Ajax framework, which Apple began developing in 2022 for machine learning projects. The Ajax framework will serve as the foundation for Apple's future AI features across all platforms.

Evidence of Apple's work on new AI and a larger language model was even found in iOS 17.4. The company also uses the ChatGPT API for internal testing and development of its own AI models.

• A new version of Siri that will be smarter and similar to platforms like ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
• New AI features for Apple Music that will automatically generate playlists.
• AI integration of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers apps for content creation and more.
• AI functions for Xcode that will help you complete code blocks, test applications, and more.
• An updated version of Spotlight Search, powered by generative AI, will be able to perform more complex tasks.
• A new mindfulness-related AI feature is coming to the Health app and Apple Watch.
• New AI features for the Messages app that can automatically end messages, answer questions, and summarize incoming messages.

II-models Apple

Did you know that Apple has already released several powerful AI frameworks and models? You can read about them below:

• Apple Keyframer generates AI animation based on images and text
• Apple spoke about the new AI model “MM1”

Apple announcements for this year

At Apple's recent earnings call, Tim Cook made several announcements about the future. According to Cook, Apple spends a lot of time and effort on artificial intelligence technologies. He promised that the company would share information about the developments “later this year.”

Tim Cook very rarely even hints at Apple's future plans. Why did he do this this time? Most likely, to get rid of the worries of investors and analysts. They believe that Apple is far behind competitors OpenAI, Google and Microsoft. It is not known whether announcements alone will be enough to get rid of fears.

Partnership with Google

Bloomberg writes that Apple is in active negotiations with Google about using Gemini, a set of Google 's generative AI models. Apple wants to collaborate on cloud-based generative AI models.