• Reasoning and planning are the bedrock of intelligent AI systems, enabling them to plan, interact, adapt, and ultimately, operate independently. • At Apple, understanding and advancing reasoning capablilities in AI systems has long been an area of active research, and has resulted in numerous publications that both explore new techniques to advance the frontier of reasoning, and further the fieldâs understanding of the capabilities (and limitations) of current approaches. • Last year, Apple hosted the Workshop on Reasoning and Planning, bringing together Apple researchers and members of the broader research community for a two-day event focused on advancing the state of the art in this area. • The workshop focused on three key areas: Reasoning and Planning, Applications to Agents, and Model Development. • The presentations and discussions of these topics explored how reasoning and planning models process and complete complex tasks based on simple instructions. • Workshop participants discussed questions, such as: - how to ground the reasoning process into various modalities and embodiments; - what is the interplay between search/test-time compute and the capabilities of foundation models; - how can multiple reasoning systems collaborate.

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  • Apple hosted its 2025 Workshop on Reasoning and Planning, a two‑day event that gathered Apple researchers and external experts to advance AI reasoning capabilities. The workshop focused on three core themes-Reasoning and Planning, Applications to Agents, and Model Development-and explored how reasoning models can be grounded in diverse modalities, balance search‑time compute with foundation models, and collaborate across systems. Discussions also covered memory‑based architectures, trustworthy planning, and scalable training via simulators. Apple released recordings of key talks and highlighted several published papers that push the state of the art in adaptive, efficient, and safe AI reasoning.
  • Reasoning and planning are the bedrock of intelligent AI systems, enabling them to plan, interact, adapt, and ultimately, operate independently. At Apple, understanding and advancing reasoning capablilities in AI systems has long been an area of active research, and has resulted in numerous publications that both explore new techniques to advance the frontier of reasoning, and further the fieldâs understanding of the capabilities (and limitations) of current approaches. Last year, Apple hosted the Workshop on Reasoning and Planning, bringing together Apple researchers and members of the broade

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