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Apple adopts a dual-partner model in China: Baidu provides software services for the Siri voice assistant and visual intelligence (adding a new Baidu Visual Search module), while Alibaba integrates AI capabilities into Apple Intelligence, providing text and image understanding and content generation for Chinese users of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, with the license scope covering Tongyi Wanxiang and Qwen.
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10/16/2026
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