Apple’s smart glasses might run on this AI model

For the past few months, there have been plenty of rumors and reports about Apple’s plans to release AI-enabled wearables. Currently, it looks like Apple’s direct competitors to the Meta Ray-Bans will be launched around 2027, alongside AirPods with cameras, which will offer their own set of AI-enabled features. While it might be too early to know what exactly they will look like, Apple has just offered a peek at how their AI might work. In 2023, Apple’s Machine Learning Research team released MLX, its own open ML framework specifically designed for Apple Silicon. In a nutshell, MLX offers a lightweight way to train and run models locally on Apple devices, while remaining familiar to developers who are used to frameworks and languages more traditionally associated with AI development. Apple’s new visual model is FAST Now, Apple has released FastVLM: a Visual Language Model (VLM) that leverages MLX to offer near-instant high-resolution image processing, while demanding significantly ... Read full article.