Apple's Most Powerful On-Device AI Now Requires iPhone 17 Pro or iPhone Air
Apple's most advanced on-device AI model in iOS 27 requires a minimum of 12GB of unified memory, meaning the standard iPhone 17 is excluded. The next generation of Apple Intelligence introduces a…
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