Apple Outlines Major AI and Developer Tool Updates at 2026 Platforms State of the Union (opens in new tab)

Apple yesterday held its , detailing a wide range of updates to its developer tools and platforms, headlined by a major expansion of the Foundation Models framework. The main announcement was free access to Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute for developers with fewer than two million first-time downloads, removing infrastructure costs as a barrier to building AI-powered features. The framework is also gaining image input support, server-side model integration allowing de...