Right now, Apple’s Vision Pro is more like a glorified monitor you can wear on your face. It has its uses, and it is a technological marvel, but it doesn’t do much at the moment. Plus, its size and price mean it’s not something you can use every day. However, Apple has plans for a future pair of smart glasses, and this is the AI model that could run on it.
Meet Apple’s new AI model for its smart glasses
It’s not surprising that the Vision Pro hasn’t become mainstream. Like we said, the size and price put it out of reach for most people. If Apple wants something that can be adopted by the masses, smart glasses are the way to go. But smart glasses aren’t smart without software, which is why, according to a report from 9to5Mac, they speculate that Apple’s new FastVLM AI model could drive the device.
According to Apple’s description of the AI model, “Based on a comprehensive efficiency analysis of the interplay between image resolution, vision latency, token count, and LLM size, we introduce FastVLM—a model that achieves an optimized trade-off between latency, model size, and accuracy.”
The AI model’s core is the FastViTHD encoder,
