Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China in December, powered by Alibaba's Qwen instead of ChatGPT
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Apple confirmed on October 31 that Apple Intelligence will come to iPhones in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, with testing starting in the iOS developer beta on November 4. The notable part is the model swap: instead of ChatGPT, Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence in China will be…
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- 2026-11-03 03:12 · r/artificial
Apple Intelligence in China will run on Alibaba's Qwen, testing starts Nov 4 - 2026-11-03 00:58 · r/artificial
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China in December, powered by Alibaba's Qwen instead of ChatGPT
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