Can artificial intelligence and smartphones even co-exist?
17 March 2025
But what if Apple has discovered that it’s not actually possible? AI is entirely new, with new requirements that stress the limits of hardware. Apple is attempting to cram a clever intermingling of data and Siri features into 8 GB of RAM. As a comparison, the largest version of DeepSeek R1 can only be run on a brand new Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra and 512 GB of RAM.
512 GB of RAM? Well, Apple’s AI offering won’t have a hope of working on my old SE2 device, with its three GB of RAM then. Not that I think Apple Intelligence will be available on older handsets anyway.
For all the bad press Apple Intelligence has been copping in recent weeks though, some people are finding various of the currently available features useful, as Amanda Caswell writes at Tom’s Guide.
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