You can test Apple’s first big AI release right now, before iOS 18 rolls out

Apple may have avoided the artificial intelligence (AI) hype last year, but it can't afford to ignore it for one more iPhone cycle. We already have signs that AI will play a big part in the iPhone experience this year. First of all, there's the flood of iOS 18 leaks that have been teasing new AI features. Then we have Tim Cook's comments from Apple's most recent earnings call a few days ago. The exec confirmed Apple AI announcements for later this year.

Finally, we have actual proof that comes directly from Apple, confirming that the company is developing generative AI software like ChatGPT. Software engineers have published some of their research in the past few months. The last AI innovation came in the form of an AI photo editor like the kind you might already expect to see in iOS 18. After all, Google has a powerful AI editor for Android already.

But Apple's MGIE, short for MLLM-guided image editing, is a different kind of editor. It takes text-based commands to deliver your edits. This approach might be better than physically interacting with a photo to perform certain AI edits. MLLM stands for multimodal large language models. In this case, it means it allows input of text and images in prompts.

While I'd expect to see something like MGIE in iOS 18, nothing is guaranteed. But you can already test Apple's AI photo editor right now, without actually installing anything on your computer.

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