The significant part of this, for me, is not the image model. It's that Apple rarely publishes in the vision field. Back in Neurips (2016 I want to say?) Apple

The significant part of this, for me, is not the image model. It's that Apple rarely publishes in the vision field. Back in Neurips (2016 I want to say?) Apple had a workshop where they said "we're going to engage more with the academic community, we're going to publish more," but since then only a small number of CV projects have seen the academic light of day. I remember one on detection of flashing lights, a whitepaper/tech report on Hey Siri wakeword detection, some interesting synthetic image generation for iris recognition, now this. If I had to guess, I think Apple Research may have some institutional obstacles to getting research work out there. Perhaps this could indicate those walls are continuing to dissolve bit by bit?