What's New in Apple's Foundation Models Framework at WWDC 2026 (opens in new tab)

From a single on-device model to a hybrid, multimodal, agentic AI platform — and it's going open source When Apple shipped the Foundation Models framework at WWDC 2025, the pitch was tidy: a Swift API onto the ~3B-parameter model that powers Apple Intelligence, running on-device, no API key, no network round-trip, no per-token cost. Great for privacy-sensitive, offline-friendly work — and deliberately narrow. WWDC 2026 blows that scope wide open. The framework is no longer "the on-device mode...