Apple is offering lower AI infrastructure costs to attract newer developers, allowing those with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads to use its Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute without incurring cloud API costs. This initiative provides access to advanced AI capabilities while ensuring strong privacy protections.

Apple announced a new AI architecture built on foundation models developed in collaboration with Google, utilizing technologies from the Gemini family. This architecture is designed to operate on-device and on servers through Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.