Sources say Apple's AI model was developed in partnership with Alibaba Group and trained with the Chinese tech giant's support, Apple and Alibaba did not respond to requests for comment.

Apple Intelligence has been formally integrated with Alibaba's Qwen model on macOS, according to Apple's Chinese website on Saturday, enabling voice assistant and text-generation…

The company has taken a page from its Google Gemini AI playbook and built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba.