Timeline
Mandated that 65-80% of developer code must be AI-generated by mid-2026.
Unverified claim that Apple will deeply integrate Gemini into iOS at WWDC 2026.
Meta released Tuna-2, an encoder-free multimodal model that processes raw pixels directly
Proposed $2B acquisition of Manus blocked by China
Meta publishes paper on summary-based history reuse for coding agents, showing 10-20% improvement on complex tasks
Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 CPU cores for AI agent workloads
Meta open-sourced Sapiens2 on Hugging Face, a suite of vision transformers for human-centric perception.
Released and open-sourced the DFNDR-12M multimodal training dataset on Hugging Face.
John Ternus assumes leadership of Apple's AI and hardware engineering efforts, marking a transition from the Cook era.
Apple promotes Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer, centralizing leadership over silicon design and hardware engineering.
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Evidence (5 articles)
mlx-vlm v0.4.4 Launches with Falcon-Perception 300M, TurboQuant Metal Kernels & 1.9x Decode Speedup
Apr 4, 2026Facebook's SAM 3 Vision Model Ported to Apple's MLX Framework, Enabling Real-Time Tracking on M3 Max
Mar 28, 2026Sam3 + MLX Enables Local, Multi-Object Video Tracking Without Cloud APIs
Mar 29, 2026RunAnywhere's MetalRT Engine Delivers Breakthrough AI Performance on Apple Silicon
Mar 10, 2026mlx-vlm v0.4.2 Adds SAM3, DOTS-MOCR Models and Critical Fixes for Vision-Language Inference on Apple Silicon
Mar 28, 2026