What's new with Apple Intelligence?

Apple Intelligence is a significant new feature introduced at WWDC 2024. It is a personal intelligence system that integrates powerful generative models into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Here are some key points about Apple Intelligence:

1. Generative AI Capabilities: Apple Intelligence brings new capabilities for understanding and generating language and images, helping users take actions with rich awareness of their personal context. It is deeply integrated into features and apps across the system and built with privacy from the ground up. (Platforms State of the Union)

2. On-Device Intelligence: Apple Intelligence includes an on-device foundation model, a highly capable large language model designed to run locally on Apple devices. This approach ensures low latency, better user experience, and enhanced privacy by keeping personal data on the device. (Platforms State of the Union)

3. Semantic Index and App Intents Toolbox: It features a device semantic index that organizes personal information from across apps and an app intents toolbox that understands app capabilities and can act on behalf of the user. This system orchestrates requests using either on-device intelligence or private cloud compute, grounded in the user's personal context. (Platforms State of the Union)

4. Privacy and Security: Apple Intelligence is designed with privacy and security from the ground up. Apple is committed to making virtual images of every production build of private cloud compute publicly available for inspection by security researchers. (Platforms State of the Union)

5. New APIs and Features: Developers can integrate new features into their apps using APIs provided by Apple Intelligence. Some of the new features include writing tools, Genmoji, and image playground. Writing tools help users rewrite, proofread, and summarize text, while Genmoji allows users to create new emojis. (Platforms State of the Union)

6. Siri Enhancements: Apple Intelligence also brings major updates to Siri, making it more natural, contextually relevant, and personal. Siri can now understand on-screen context and take actions based on it, and it has improved language understanding capabilities. (Bring your app to Siri)

For a deeper dive into these topics, you can explore the following sessions:

• Platforms State of the Union
• Explore machine learning on Apple platforms
• Bring your app to Siri