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on-device model
An 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.
also written as local model · on device model
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Foundation Models frameworkApple'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.view termentity extractionThe task of pulling structured items such as names, dates, or places out of unstructured text, a common supported use case for smaller on-device models.view termsparse modelA model built with far more total parameters than it uses on any single request, activating only a fraction of them per query instead of running the whole network every time. This keeps inference cheaper while the model still holds more learned capacity.view term
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