Third macOS Golden Gate Public Beta Now Available

[LFO8]

It really isn't just Siri. Apple intelligence is way more than that. For example, image playgrounds, visual intelligence, genmoji, shortcuts etc.

Apple Intelligence - Apple Developer

Apple Intelligence is the personal intelligence system that puts powerful generative models right at the core of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac and powers incredible new features to help users communicate, work, and express themselves.

developer.apple.com

So disabling Siri will not free up the space used by the models or disable all of apple intelligence.


oh and Apple ARE expanding to run on Googles cloud infrastructure.

Expanding Private Cloud Compute - Apple Security Research

Alongside the next generation of Apple Intelligence, today we’re expanding Private Cloud Compute (PCC) beyond Apple’s data centers. When Apple introduced Private Cloud Compute in 2024, we defined a new frontier for private AI inference, extending the security and privacy of Apple devices into...

security.apple.com

...but they are claiming separation.

Well, let's see if and when 3rd party audits show up.

 

[jml12286]

Will definitely try when I get home. My MacBook Neo has been so sluggish.

Came back to report that my Neo seems normal now after this update. 🥳

 

[maxoakland]

You can turn it off (its now just Siri) and no the backend isn't Google. Apple is using Gemeni models but that doesnt mean anything gets sent to Google, its still running on Apples servers as well as apple prompts, agents, etc.
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Does turning it off free up the space it takes? It was almost as much as the System data took up last I checked and it couldn't be turned off

 

[deaglecat]

Does turning it off free up the space it takes? It was almost as much as the System data took up last I checked and it couldn't be turned off

No absolutely it doesn't free up the space - although Apple are quite opaque about what and when gets loaded and deleted.

Apple intelligence is baked in to Golden Gate - not saying that is a bad thing but there is no evidence that it can fully be turned off in the betas. Sure you can disable Siri but that isn't really the whole story.

 

[blindzero]

I seemed to have lost my "ALL INBOXES" in OSX Mail. Can't see where to add it back in either.