Organization
Apple
Apple is a consumer products company and hardware maker headquartered in Cupertino, California1. This catalog lists 2 open model releases and 2 software projects from Apple, under licenses including the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement and the Apple software license (CoreNet).
Documented roles: Consumer products · Hardware manufacturer · Model developer · Developer platform
Apple makes and sells smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories, and sells related services. Its AI features, called Apple Intelligence, run on-device and through Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Developers can reach Apple's on-device model through the Foundation Models framework, and Apple machine learning research publishes the open-source MLX array framework.1234
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Intended users
Apple presents the Foundation Models framework as a Swift API for app developers adding features built on Apple Foundation Models. Its MLX repository describes the framework as designed by and for machine learning researchers.679
Hosted and self-hosted access
The framework, available from iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 26 and watchOS 27, documents both on-device and Private Cloud Compute models. Apple says App Store Small Business Program members whose app has fewer than 2 million total first-time downloads can use its next-generation Private Cloud Compute models at no cloud API cost. Apple also publishes some research model weights, such as FastVLM and OpenELM, on Hugging Face.7610
Restrictions and review limits
The framework requires a device that supports Apple Intelligence, whose availability also depends on language and region. Some Apple research weights, including FastVLM-7B, use the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License, which limits use to non-commercial research; MLX itself uses the MIT License. This profile is not a complete product or rights audit.78119
Key facts
What is and isn’t public
Apple's consumer AI features and on-device model are delivered through its operating systems and developer frameworks. It publishes open-source machine learning software such as MLX under the MIT License. It has also published research model weights on Hugging Face, such as FastVLM and OpenELM, under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License Agreement rather than an OSI-approved license; those releases have their own catalog records.2351011
Products
Hosted model products
Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Intelligence (external site: apple.com) | Assistant app | Built into supported iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro models, including Siri. Uses on-device processing and can draw on larger server-based models through Private Cloud Compute. Siri AI is not initially available in the EU on iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.2 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation Models framework (external site: developer.apple.com) | Developer tool | Apple developer framework for language understanding, structured output, and tool calling, available from iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 26 and watchOS 27.3 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Model releases
- FastVLM 7BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- OpenELM 3B InstructModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Frameworks
- Core ML Tools (coremltools)SoftwareAvailability: Public
- MLXSoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
In the news
Apple publishes LensVLM-9B, a research vision-language model that reads compressed images of text
In September 2026 Apple published LensVLM-9B on Hugging Face, a 9B vision-language model that scans compressed images of text and selectively expands only the relevant pages to their uncompressed form through learned tools. The model card lists Qwen3.5-9B as the base model and says the model files, including Apple's modifications to the Qwen model, are provided under the Apple Machine Learning Research Model License, while the accompanying code in the apple-aiml-research/ml-lensvlm repository is under the Apple Sample Code License. The model accompanies the paper "LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text." USASI has not tested LensVLM-9B.
What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Apple Inc. is a California corporation whose principal executive offices are at One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, per its Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025.1
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USASI. (2026, October 1). Apple. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/apple/
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@misc{usasi_apple,
author = {{USASI}},
title = {Apple},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
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note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-01}
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