Apple announced at its WWDC 2026 keynote that it is partnering with Google and Nvidia to power its new Apple Intelligence suite.
The most capable model, AFM 3 Cloud Pro, was developed with Google and marks Apple’s first major reliance on outside infrastructure for core features.
Google Cloud servers running on Nvidia GPUs will handle complex AI tasks that cannot be processed on-device.
Apple is extending its Private Cloud Compute framework to this third-party hardware to maintain privacy protections.
Nvidia’s Confidential Computing technology will encrypt data during processing to secure user information.
This shift occurred because Apple’s internal servers were not powerful enough to run the advanced models independently.