# Apple Foundation Models

Tool · [Standard tools and platforms](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tools)

Also called: Foundation Models framework, Apple AFM, AFM, Apple Intelligence model

Apple's on-device [AI model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model) and the [framework](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-stack) that lets app [developers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) use it on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Requests run on the device, so data stays there.

**For example:** An iPhone app uses Apple's Foundation Models framework to summarize a user's notes without sending them to a [server](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/server).

Official site: <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels>

## Connects to (4)

- [Local model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/local-model): A model that is downloaded and run on a person's own computer or a company's own servers, not on a provider's.
- [Data privacy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/data-privacy): How a company collects, uses, stores and shares information about people.
- [Xcode](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/xcode): Apple's free app for building software for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
- [LLM](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/llm): Large language model.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/apple-foundation-models