Apple AI Updates: August 26, 2026

1. Apple Publishes STARFlow2 for Unified Multimodal Generation

Apple. Apple researchers published STARFlow2, a framework that bridges language models and normalizing flows for unified multimodal generation. It uses autoregressive normalizing flows that share structural similarities with language models to improve joint text-image sequence generation, addressing the fragmentation common across separate multimodal systems. The work was released through Apple’s Machine Learning Research site. Source