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There’s more to this year’s smartphones than AI

Software isn’t the only thing changing because of AI.

Apple’s on-device AI system offers splashy features like the ability to rewrite emails, generate custom emoji, and a significantly upgraded Siri. “We don’t want the rest of the phone experiences to slow to accommodate the large model, hence growing the total RAM instead of squeezing into the existing budget,” Google group product manager Stephanie Scott said in an email exchange with The Verge. Microsoft dictated earlier this year that only machines with at least 16GB of memory can be considered a Copilot Plus PC — that is, a laptop capable of running local Windows AI features.

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