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Genuine question, not trying to throw a shade or anything, but are those cores actually useful with the state of apple intelligence being what it is?
by poszlem 8mo ago
Genuine question, not trying to throw a shade or anything, but are those cores actually useful with the state of apple intelligence being what it is?
- rahkiin 8mo agoThey are also used by ML models that are deeply integrated in macos and ios without you knowing. Like object and text detection in images.
- geerlingguy 8mo agoAnd help in Photos, Final Cut Pro, and other apps.
- willis936 8mo agoI wish they would (or wouldn't if they are) hook it up to the ios keyboard.
- esafak 8mo agoYou can convert your own ML models to MLX to use them; Apple Intelligence is not the only application.
- nullstyle 8mo agoMLX does not run on NPUs AFAIK; just gpu and cpu. You have to use CoreML to officially run code on the neural engine.
- mirsadm 8mo agoEven then there is no transparency on how it decides what runs on the ANE/GPU etc
- sroussey 8mo agoCorrect. OS level stuff get first priority, so you can’t count on using it.
- znagengast 8mo agoTurns out third party actually gets priority for ANE
- llm_nerd 8mo agohttps://dennisforbes.ca/blog/microblog/2026/02/apple-neural-engine-and-you/ https://dennisforbes.ca/blog/microblog/2026/02/apple-neural-...
- malshe 8mo agoThis is a nice article. Thanks for sharing.
- stetrain 8mo agoApple's OSes run a lot of local ML models for many tasks that aren't branded as Apple Intelligence, and they have done so for many years now.
- dagmx 8mo agoIf you strip away the branding, Apple has and continues to ship a ton of algorithms that likely use the ANE and end users can use CoreML to do the same. Just some things that people will likely take for granted that IIRC Apple have said use the ANE or at least would likely benefit from it: object recognition, subject extraction from images and video, content analysis, ARKit, spam detection, audio transcription.
- sroussey 8mo agoDon’t forget FaceID and many of the image manipulation. And while everyone else went to more powerful giant LLMs, Apple moved most of Siri from the cloud to your device. Though they do use both (which you can see when Siri corrects itself during transcription—you get the local Siri version corrected later by the cloud version).
- mschuster91 8mo agoIIRC, FaceID has been a thing before ML entered the picture.
- dagmx 8mo agoFaceID was introduced along side the ANE. It was its reason d’être when introduced.
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