I think this is the wrong way. I don’t want my OS or browser to have access to an LLM, but I do want my LLM to have access to a browser or OS (and they already have).

So they should provide an interface to LLMs, disabled by default, enabled when users want it, and that’s it imho.

That also gives me the choice of which LLM provider to use, rather than being locked in whatever LLM Apple decided to do put in their OS.

I want to give Claude access to the stuff Apple Intelligence has access to, for example.

Sure. macOS, iOS and Windows have local model APIs for third-party devs. Chrome is trialing it. Firefox uses models to generate alt-text, but no API.

In theory it's useful. If devs can rely on local models, it's more private and decentralized, they don't need to funnel money to AWS or Anthropic. There are low-stakes use cases that only make sense if they're local (available offline) and free.

But in practice I've seen zero adoption of Apple Foundation Models in native apps. I wonder if any Mac/iOS devs have anything to share on this.

It's the typical "cart before the horse" kind of corporate tech talk. It's pretty standard if Silicon Valley wants to sell shit that nobody actually wants; they just assume that people will want it, regardless whether or not they actually want it. Most of the tech press is too obsessed with retaining their "access" to actually be critical of this sort of thing, and most of the regular press doesn't care enough to actually investigate.

We've seen this sort of song and dance before, crypto jumps to mind. Remember when social media sites suddenly were all about those hexagonal avatars? Most of this stuff is really in that same vein.

(Which to be clear, users don't want this. AI pushes by pretty much all recent user feedback metrics are largely tiring out users and reek of corporate desperation to sell shit. It's only a very specific subsection of Silicon Valley that wants to stuff AI in everything like this.)

Those exact words are the positioning statement (start the second paragraph) of the document you linked.

What are you trying to say?

Browsers: Chrome (proposed this Prompt API)

Operating Systems: Windows (built-in Copilot), MacOS, iOS (Apple Intelligence)

So it's >90% desktop browser and OS, plus >30% mobile OS.

Yes, I think it's very safe to say "browsers and operating systems are increasingly expected to gain access to language models."