AFM 3 Core Advanced

Name: AFM 3 Core Advanced
Author: Apple

AppleProprietaryPending Human Review

AFM 3 Core Advanced is a third-generation Apple Foundation Model published at WWDC26 as part of Apple Intelligence. Its prompt-level expert selection loads a subset of weights from flash into DRAM, enabling a larger local multimodal model within constrained memory. Access is integrated into Apple operating-system features rather than provided as freely downloadable weights. Availability depends on the device, software version, and supported feature. The June 8 date records the published generation; it does not imply that every consumer feature became generally available that day.

2026-06-08

20B total, 1–4B active

Sparsely activated Transformer with instruction-following pruning

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Specifications

Parameters: 20B total, 1–4B active
Architecture: Sparsely activated Transformer with instruction-following pruning
License: Proprietary
Type: multimodal
Modalities: textimageaudio

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Advanced Specifications

Model Family: Apple Foundation Models
API Access: Not Available
Chat Interface: Not Available

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities: language understandingtext generationon-device inference
Known Limitations: Weights are not publicly downloadableAccess depends on supported Apple hardware and operating-system featuresResearch publication date differs from individual feature rollout
Notable Use Cases: Apple Intelligence featuresprivate personal assistantsintegrated app experiences

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