🍎 Attended Apple's Foundation Models Workshop in Madrid

You've been invited to Apple.

I had the incredible opportunity to attend Apple's Foundation Models and Machine Learning Workshop at Apple Madrid. A two-day hands-on experience exploring Apple's on-device LLM through the Foundation Models framework. As a first-generation Apple Developer Academy alumni who was thrilled when Apple announced AI training for all students and alumni, this felt like a natural next step. My journey with Apple's ML stack started back in 2018 at an IBM CoreML workshop, and later I used CoreML for gesture recognition on Apple Watch in my master's degree project — so diving into Foundation Models feels like a full circle moment.

The workshop covered text manipulation, semantic chunking, guided generation, tool calling, localization techniques, prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation), and integration with Image Playground, Speech, and Vision frameworks.

It was amazing to meet the Apple Developer Relations team, connect with the Spanish iOS community, and catch up with fellow Portuguese and Brazilian developers.