Ferret

Apple · 2023 · Multimodal LLM · USA

A to Z

A · App: No
B · Built By: Apple
C · CEO & Politics: John Ternus
D · Date: 2023
E · Expertise: Intermediate+
F · Free Tier: Yes
G · Generates: Text only
H · Deployment: Cloud + Local (open weights)
I · Inputs: Text+Image+Audio
J · Jurisdiction: USA
K · Key Staffers: John Ternus (CEO since Sep 1, 2026), Tim Cook (Executive Chairman)
L · Languages: English-primary
M · Model Type: Multimodal LLM
N · Safety Issues: None reported
O · Open Source: Yes — open weights
P · Pricing: Free (research-only weights; Apple's weight deltas CC BY-NC)
Q · AIDb Rating: [UNKNOWN]
R · What Makes It Special: Apple's Ferret (ICLR 2024 Spotlight), an end-to-end multimodal LLM built on Vicuna that accepts any-form referring and grounds anything in its responses, using a hybrid region representation and a spatial-aware visual sampler; Apple released 7B and 13B weight deltas over Vicuna (research-only, CC BY-NC), the 1.1M-sample GRIT instruction dataset and Ferret-Bench, followed by Ferret-v2 and Ferret-UI.
S · Stock / Status: $341 (AAPL, Sep 25, 2026)
T · Training Cutoff: [UNKNOWN]
U · Users: [UNKNOWN]
V · Voice Chat: No
W · Weights: Downloadable
X · X Handle: @Apple
Y · Year Founded: [UNKNOWN]
Z · Bottom Line: Open-weights Multimodal LLM from Apple, released 2023.

Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“Ferret.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/ferret.html