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Documented at WWDC26 session 334 and discovered by r/LocalLLaMA, fm chat opens an interactive session with /model to switch to the Private Cloud Compute model and /save to persist, alongside fm respond for single turns and fm schema for structured output. There's a Foundation Models Python SDK too. The thread's reaction was derisive about the model's quality, with top comments posting strawberry-counting failures, so the news here is distribution, not capability.
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