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Apple Foundation Model 3 Core Advanced (on-device, 20B sparse)

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Apple · Apple Foundation Models family · released Jun 8, 2026

Apple's most capable on-device model as of mid-2026, the headline of the WWDC26 third-generation Foundation Models family; natively multimodal (image understanding, expressive voices, higher-accuracy dictation).

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic
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Elo · unrated
Parameters
20B
Active params
4B (MoE)
Context
32K tokens
Architecture
Sparse on-device model (20B total, 1-4B active per request) using Apple's 'Instruction-Following Pruning' with shared + input-routed experts stored in flash and loaded into DRAM on demand
License
Proprietary
Languages
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API price (in/out)
No hosted API
Modalities
text · vision
Benchmark results
Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best
Run it locally
Closed weights — available via API only. No local deployment.
Input / M tok
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Output / M tok
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Apple Foundation Models family
Elo progression across releases
Apple Foundation Model (on-device, ~3B)Jun 2024240.6Apple Foundation Model 3 Core Advanced (on-device, 20B sparse)Jun 20261000.0Apple Foundation Model 3 Core (on-device, ~3B)Jun 20261000.0
Resources
DOCShttps://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third-generation-of-apple-foundation-modelsAPIAvailable via Apple API
API price — · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)