Gurman: this WWDC probably won’t be Apple’s AI comeback

According to Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter, Apple insiders “believe that the conference may be a letdown from an AI standpoint,” highlighting how far behind Apple still is. Still, Apple has a few AI-related announcements slated for June 9.

As previously reported, this year’s biggest AI announcement will be Apple’s plans to open up its on-device foundation models to third-party developers.

These are the same ~3B parameter models Apple currently uses for things…