Apple’s Stealthy Move – Unveiling Ferret, an Open-Source Multimodal LLM

In a quiet revelation that echoed louder in the tech corridors than any orchestrated announcement, Apple Inc. and Cornell University researchers slyly introduced the world to Ferret last October. This open-source and multimodal large language model (LLM) breaks Apple’s tradition of secrecy, marking a significant leap into the AI space. Utilizing images as queries, Ferret’s