Apple has trained a China-only large language model with Alibaba’s help, becoming the first foreign firm cleared to offer a proprietary AI model in mainland China.

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.