Microsoft Build 2025: Three highlights Apple should pay attention to

Yesterday, Microsoft kicked off its annual developers conference with, unsurprisingly, a slew of AI features, models, and capabilities it is bringing to its own systems, many of which developers will also be able to leverage. While some are very specific to Microsoft’s ecosystem, there were quite a few that would undoubtedly be a great addition to Apple’s own native AI offerings, whenever those finally materialize. #1: On-device AI models access through Edge A new set of APIs will allow developers to access the 3.8-billion-parameter Phi-4 mini model built directly into the Edge browser, from their websites or extensions. As Microsoft explains it: The AI APIs include the Prompt API for easy model prompting and Writing Assistance APIs for generating, summarizing, and editing text, which are available in the Edge Canary and Dev channels today. Soon, the Translator API will join this suite, enabling text translations Additionally, it introduced a PDF translation feature on Edge, which ... Read full article.