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Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

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485 points zora_goron | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 00:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.574s | source
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AndyKelley ◴[29 Aug 25 02:29 UTC] No.45059401[source]▶
Apple.com advertising a Mac Mini:

> Built for Apple Intelligence.

> 16-core Neural Engine

These Xcode release notes:

> Claude in Xcode is now available in the Intelligence settings panel, allowing users to seamlessly add their existing paid Claude account to Xcode and start using Claude Sonnet 4

All that dedicated silicon taking up space on their SoC and yet you still have to input your credit card in order to use their IDE. Come on...

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1. isodev ◴[29 Aug 25 03:37 UTC] No.45059881[source]▶
"Apple Intelligence", at least the part that's available to developers via the Foundation Models framework is a tiny ~3B model [0] with very limited context window. It's mainly good for simple things like tagging/classification and small snippets of text.

[0] https://github.com/fguzman82/apple-foundation-model-analysis

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2. alwillis ◴[29 Aug 25 05:35 UTC] No.45060588[source]▶
Yes, but the Foundation Model framework can seamlessly use Apple's much larger models via Private Cloud Compute or switch to ChatGPT.

When macOS 26 is officially announced on September 9, I expect Apple to announce support for Anthropic and Google models.