Apple printed a technical overview of its third-generation foundation-model household (AFM 3) at WWDC 2026, saying 5 fashions throughout on-device and cloud tiers, per Apple Machine Studying Analysis. The household contains two on-device fashions: AFM 3 Core (3-billion-parameter dense) and AFM 3 Core Superior (20-billion-parameter sparse, activating simply 1-4B parameters through Instruction-Following Pruning). Three server-based fashions run on Non-public Cloud Compute: AFM 3 Cloud, ADM 3 Cloud for picture technology, and AFM 3 Cloud Professional, which runs on NVIDIA GPUs inside Google Cloud whereas retaining Non-public Cloud Compute privateness ensures (Apple ML Analysis). In side-by-side human evaluations, Apple experiences AFM 3 Cloud was most well-liked on 64.7% of prompts versus 8.7% for the 2025 server baseline. Financial institution of America characterised the bulletins as a ‘materials constructive reset’ for Apple’s AI ambitions, per Looking for Alpha.