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Foundation Models framework
Apple's developer API for calling its on-device AI model from third-party apps, limited to tasks like summarization and tool calling while excluding code generation, math, and factual question answering.
also written as foundation models api
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LoRA adapterA small add-on set of weights trained separately from a base model to customize its behavior for a specific task, cheaper to produce than retraining the whole model.view termguided generationA model output mode constrained to match a predefined structure or schema, such as forcing a response into valid JSON or a fixed set of fields.view termon-device modelAn AI model small enough to run directly on a phone or laptop rather than a remote server, trading capability for no API key, no inference bill, and offline use.view termtool callingA model capability where the AI can invoke external functions or APIs mid-response to fetch data or take an action, rather than only generating text.view term
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