Apple’s long-awaited artificial intelligence features will finally be officially launched in China in December. This ends it two years of regulatory uncertainty as the US tech giant looks to bring advanced technologies to it’s second-largest market with the help of Alibaba Group Holding.
Alibaba Group has now partnered with Apple to integrate its Qwen AI model into Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market. The feature will allows for testing in the latest iOS developer beta starting Nov. 4. It will launch with the official iOS 27.3 release in December, Alibaba said.
Qwen’s AI capabilities will be integrated into several Apple features, including Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. The first roll-out is set to include around 18 new features offered by Apple Intelligence. Some of the features you should expect as a user include writing tools for summarizing and proofreading and live translation for phone calls and messages.
Users have the freedom to enable the integrate and what information they can share. Alibaba said user requests and generated responses would not be used to train is AI models. You should remember that the feature will be available on compatible iPhones whose device location and Apple Account region are both set to China.
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An important point to note is that users will not have the same access as those in many International markets. This is because the latest Siri AI capabilities and other next-generation services would be excluded from this initial release. Siri is the virtual assistant across Apple’s ecosystem.
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said the partnership would bring new AI-powered services to Chinese users.Wang Xiaojie, an AI expert at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said this marked the first time a major global consumer hardware maker had adopted a Chinese large language model as its primary system-level AI backbone in the Chinese market.
You should note that Alibaba’s flagship AI model Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence through a partnership between the two firms. The partnership will allow users to prompt Qwen for text generation, image creation, as well as photo or document analysis via Siri.
“We are delighted to cooperate with Apple,” said Eddie Wu Yongming, chief executive officer of Alibaba, in a statement on Saturday. “Qwen will draw on Alibaba’s deep AI technology stack to deeply integrate into the Apple ecosystem, jointly delivering entirely new intelligent experiences for Apple users in China.”
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