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It’s a very small model but I’ve been playing with it for some time now I’m impressed. Have we been sleeping on Apple’s models? Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 lev

It’s a very small model but I’ve been playing with it for some time now I’m impressed. Have we been sleeping on Apple’s models? Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 level stuff into the OS. Wow that’d be cool.

thenthenthen 7mo ago
The vision models and OCR are SUPER
bombcar 7mo ago
Apparently the Overcast guy build a beowulf cluster of Mac minis to use the Apple transcription service. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathangathright_marco-arment-just-announced-on-atp-that-overcast-activity-7440235594577854464-FQhm/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathangathright_marco-arment-...
- gigatexal 7mo ago
  Yeah heard him talk about that. 48 or so 16GB m4 Mac minis. Insane. The Beowulf lives
- xp84 7mo ago
  The ATP episode where he talked about this was incredibly fascinating. Marco is such a role model to me - he has a complete immunity to fads and trends, and just does things the way he wants to. He adopts the 'new and cool' things only when they have a real benefit.
  - gigatexal 7mo ago
    I largely subscribe to the use boring tech ethos ... but php? come on man. and yet... successful people have used it to build really successful things: Facebook, Tumblr (I think), the things Marco's been involved with. I just dunno outside of meta should we really be pushing php with all its flaws? or is it still flawed and I need to update my priors?
    - bombcar 7mo ago
      There’s something major to be said for going to war with the tools you have. And living with decisions made 15 years ago may be much more successful than trying to change horses mid-stream.
  - j13k 7mo ago
    ATP, also known as “Accidental Tech Podcast”.
FinnKuhn 7mo ago
For small tasks this seems perfect. However it being limited to English from what I can tell is quite a downsite for me.
- trollbridge 7mo ago
  It can work in other languages? % apfel --model-info apfel v0.6.25 — model info ├ model: apple-foundationmodel ├ on-device: true (always) ├ available: yes ├ context: 4096 tokens ├ languages: zh, en, nl, zh, es, es, ja, en, pt, da, fr, it, nb, vi, tr, en, de, fr, es, pt, ko, sv, zh └ framework: FoundationModels (macOS 26+) Just use the language you want when prompting it, like other LLMs? % apfel "Gib mir ein Rezept für Currywurst." Natürlich! Hier ist ein einfaches Rezept für Currywurst: ### Zutaten: - **Für die Würste:** - 500 g Bratwürste (z. B. Frankfurter Würste) (note: clipped most of the reply, since I assume most of us here don't actually need an LLM-generated recipe)
  - FinnKuhn 7mo ago
    Ok, then it might just be pretty bad at German Sie/Du. It manages to translate texts, but is unable to change between Du and Sie. interesting limitation I haven't encountered anywhere before. Even DeepL was able to swap between them. Here is the chat I used to test this again to highlight this limitation: you› write a short email to john asking for a good time to meet ai› Subject: Let's Catch Up Soon! Hi John, I hope you're doing well! I'd love to grab a coffee or meet up for a chat sometime soon. When do you have some free time this week? Looking forward to hearing from you! Best, [Your Name] you› Please translate this to German ai› Betreff: Lass uns bald treffen! Hallo John, Ich hoffe, es geht dir gut! Ich würde gerne Kaffee trinken oder uns für ein Gespräch treffen. Wann haben Sie in dieser Woche freie Zeit? Ich freue mich darauf, von Ihnen zu hören! Liebe Grüße [Dein Name] you› Bitte mit Sie Form anstatt Du ai› Betreff: Lass uns bald treffen! Hallo John, ich hoffe, es geht dir gut! Ich würde gerne Kaffee trinken oder uns für ein Gespräch treffen. Wann haben Sie in dieser Woche freie Zeit? Ich freue mich darauf, von Ihnen zu hören! Liebe Grüße [Dein Name] you› Bitte alles mit Du anstatt Sie ai› Betreff: Lass uns bald treffen! Hallo John, ich hoffe, es geht dir gut! Ich würde gerne Kaffee trinken oder uns für ein Gespräch treffen. Wann haben Sie in dieser Woche freie Zeit? Ich freue mich darauf, von dir zu hören! Liebe Grüße [Dein Name] My config: % apfel v0.6.13 — model info ├ model: apple-foundationmodel ├ on-device: true (always) ├ available: yes ├ context: 4096 tokens ├ languages: en, fr, zh, zh, ko, en, fr, de, tr, pt, it, pt, es, nl, da, nb, zh, es, es, ja, sv, vi, en └ framework: FoundationModels (macOS 26+)

thenthenthen 7mo ago

The vision models and OCR are SUPER

bombcar 7mo ago

Apparently the Overcast guy build a beowulf cluster of Mac minis to use the Apple transcription service. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathangathright_marco-arment-just-announced-on-atp-that-overcast-activity-7440235594577854464-FQhm/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathangathright_marco-arment-...

gigatexal 7mo ago
Yeah heard him talk about that. 48 or so 16GB m4 Mac minis. Insane. The Beowulf lives
xp84 7mo ago
The ATP episode where he talked about this was incredibly fascinating. Marco is such a role model to me - he has a complete immunity to fads and trends, and just does things the way he wants to. He adopts the 'new and cool' things only when they have a real benefit.
- gigatexal 7mo ago
  I largely subscribe to the use boring tech ethos ... but php? come on man. and yet... successful people have used it to build really successful things: Facebook, Tumblr (I think), the things Marco's been involved with. I just dunno outside of meta should we really be pushing php with all its flaws? or is it still flawed and I need to update my priors?
  - bombcar 7mo ago
    There’s something major to be said for going to war with the tools you have. And living with decisions made 15 years ago may be much more successful than trying to change horses mid-stream.
- j13k 7mo ago
  ATP, also known as “Accidental Tech Podcast”.

FinnKuhn 7mo ago

For small tasks this seems perfect. However it being limited to English from what I can tell is quite a downsite for me.

trollbridge 7mo ago
It can work in other languages? % apfel --model-info apfel v0.6.25 — model info ├ model: apple-foundationmodel ├ on-device: true (always) ├ available: yes ├ context: 4096 tokens ├ languages: zh, en, nl, zh, es, es, ja, en, pt, da, fr, it, nb, vi, tr, en, de, fr, es, pt, ko, sv, zh └ framework: FoundationModels (macOS 26+) Just use the language you want when prompting it, like other LLMs? % apfel "Gib mir ein Rezept für Currywurst." Natürlich! Hier ist ein einfaches Rezept für Currywurst: ### Zutaten: - **Für die Würste:** - 500 g Bratwürste (z. B. Frankfurter Würste) (note: clipped most of the reply, since I assume most of us here don't actually need an LLM-generated recipe)
- FinnKuhn 7mo ago
  Ok, then it might just be pretty bad at German Sie/Du. It manages to translate texts, but is unable to change between Du and Sie. interesting limitation I haven't encountered anywhere before. Even DeepL was able to swap between them. Here is the chat I used to test this again to highlight this limitation: you› write a short email to john asking for a good time to meet ai› Subject: Let's Catch Up Soon! Hi John, I hope you're doing well! I'd love to grab a coffee or meet up for a chat sometime soon. When do you have some free time this week? Looking forward to hearing from you! Best, [Your Name] you› Please translate this to German ai› Betreff: Lass uns bald treffen! Hallo John, Ich hoffe, es geht dir gut! Ich würde gerne Kaffee trinken oder uns für ein Gespräch treffen. Wann haben Sie in dieser Woche freie Zeit? Ich freue mich darauf, von Ihnen zu hören! Liebe Grüße [Dein Name] you› Bitte mit Sie Form anstatt Du ai› Betreff: Lass uns bald treffen! Hallo John, ich hoffe, es geht dir gut! Ich würde gerne Kaffee trinken oder uns für ein Gespräch treffen. Wann haben Sie in dieser Woche freie Zeit? Ich freue mich darauf, von Ihnen zu hören! Liebe Grüße [Dein Name] you› Bitte alles mit Du anstatt Sie ai› Betreff: Lass uns bald treffen! Hallo John, ich hoffe, es geht dir gut! Ich würde gerne Kaffee trinken oder uns für ein Gespräch treffen. Wann haben Sie in dieser Woche freie Zeit? Ich freue mich darauf, von dir zu hören! Liebe Grüße [Dein Name] My config: % apfel v0.6.13 — model info ├ model: apple-foundationmodel ├ on-device: true (always) ├ available: yes ├ context: 4096 tokens ├ languages: en, fr, zh, zh, ko, en, fr, de, tr, pt, it, pt, es, nl, da, nb, zh, es, es, ja, sv, vi, en └ framework: FoundationModels (macOS 26+)