Gurman: Apple needs a major AI comeback, but this WWDC probably won’t be it

According to Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter, Apple insiders “believe that the conference may be a letdown from an AI standpoint,” highlighting how far behind Apple still is. Still, Apple has a few AI-related announcements slated for June 9. As previously reported, this year’s biggest AI announcement will be Apple’s plans to open up its on-device foundation models to third-party developers. These are the same ~3B parameter models Apple currently uses for things like text summarization and autocorrect, and they’ll soon be available for devs to integrate into their own apps. To be clear, this is a meaningful milestone for Apple’s AI platform. It gives developers a powerful tool to natively integrate into their apps and potentially unlock genuinely useful features. Still, these on-device models are far less capable than the large-scale, cloud-based systems used by OpenAI and Google, so don’t expect earth-shattering features. AI features slated for this year’s iOS 26 El ... Read full article.