Alibaba Qwen to power Apple Intelligence features in China

AI · First reported 31 Oct, 22:40 · Updated 22:58

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Apple and Alibaba plan to integrate Qwen into selected Apple Intelligence features for Chinese users, with testing scheduled for November 4 and a wider release planned for December.

Alibaba says Qwen will be available through Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence, supporting text and image understanding and content generation.
Testing is scheduled to begin in the latest iOS developer beta on November 4, with a rollout to Chinese users alongside iOS 27.3 in December.
Users can choose whether to enable the integration and what information to share; Alibaba says it will not use requests or generated responses to train its model.

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Key facts

Testing: Latest iOS developer beta, starting November 4.
Planned rollout: With the official iOS 27.3 release in December.
Features named: Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence.
Availability conditions: For users with an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone in China, or devices located in China with the Apple Account country or region set to China.