Alibaba's Qwen to Power Apple Intelligence in China, Bringing a Chinese Foundation Model ...

Alibaba's Qwen foundation model will power Apple Intelligence in mainland China following regulatory approval, integrating into iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS. This marks the first significant deployment of a Chinese-developed LLM as core infrastructure inside a major global consumer hardware ecosystem.

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