Apple Intelligence is coming to China in December, with Alibaba's Qwen built into Siri and other features
Apple said the first Apple Intelligence features, including Live Translation, Writing Tools, Visual Intelligence, Clean Up and Genmoji, are coming to iPhone users in China. Via an Alibaba partnership, Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence will also support Qwen. Testing starts in the iOS developer beta on November 4, with release in iOS 27.3 in December.
Why it matters
Apple Intelligence had been unavailable in China; launching it with Apple's own models plus Alibaba's Qwen brings it to one of the largest smartphone markets and shows how foreign tech firms can ship generative AI under Chinese rules.
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