Comment by robotresearcher

3 days ago

For some context with numbers, in mid-2024 Apple publicly described 3B parameter foundation models. Gemini 3 Pro is about 1T today.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-intelligenc...

That 3B model is a local model that eventually got built into macOS 26. Gemini 3 Pro is a frontier model (cloud). They're very different things.