> "Some features, including image generation, have daily usage limits because they rely on powerful server models. Increased access is available with most iCloud plus subscription plans".

Start at 1:07:00 in their announcement video. Craig is absolutely talking about "Apple Intelligence" as a whole in this segment.

Pragmatically, of course they'd need to add metering to any cloud available APIs that rely on large models. There's no way they will eat the cost of serving unlimited access to a cloud LLM to end users if they won't eat the cost of an image generation model.