At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, the company announced its latest work in artificial intelligence, including new partnerships with Nvidia and Google.
The announcement highlighted that Apple has taken a different strategy from many of its Silicon Valley rivals, teaming up with competitors rather than competing with them.
On the latest collaboration, Apple AI executive Amar Subramanya said that AFM Cloud Pro is comparable to Google’s Gemini frontier models. It will run in the cloud on Nvidia GPUs, which are part of Apple’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.
“We work with both Google and Nvidia to extend our private cloud compute infrastructure to Nvidia GPUs in Google’s cloud, while maintaining Apple’s unmatched privacy guarantees,” Subramanya said.
“These four models that we just talked about — AFM Core, Core Advanced Cloud, and Cloud Image —all of these are custom built for Apple Silicon, trained using proprietary data with reinforcement learning and refined using outputs from Gemini frontier models.”
VP of software Sebastian Marineau-Mes stated that Apple aimed to use Nvidia’s latest chips but insisted on a more private configuration, preventing the chips from reading server data.
Marineau-Mes stated that recent Nvidia improvements, like a technology called “ambiguous confidential compute,” enabled Apple and Google to develop a system that met its standards.
“We wanted to avail ourselves of the latest technology from Nvidia, and so we set out to extend private cloud compute to third-party cloud,” Marineau-Mes said.
Apple also announced new intelligence features, enhanced productivity tools in Xcode, and platform improvements that make apps quicker, more adaptable, and easier to develop.
“Developers are at the heart of the Apple ecosystem, and our goal is to provide them with the best possible tools and technologies to build the future,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “With new intelligence frameworks and agentic coding in Xcode 27, developers have the tools they need to focus on what they do best: bringing their incredible ideas to life.”
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
