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Apple Intelligence Won’t Work on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones—but Maybe It Could
Older iPhones might well be able to cope with Apple’s AI, so why won’t your $900 year-old model run it? Here’s why.
You may have heard plenty about how it makes Siri smarter, rewrites your emails and essays, creates never-before-seen emoji, and turns rough sketches into bland AI art. A hobbyist software historian who goes by the name of Albacore online has got some of Microsoft’s Copilot+ features working on hardware that shouldn’t, in theory, be able to run it—a cheap Samsung Galaxy Book2 Go notebook. A little logic suggests all the generative AI stuff primed to get people excited, and steal all the jobs kids once dreamed of having, can’t be done locally on an iPhone 15 Pro Max.
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