Did you know Apple Selects Alibaba Over Deepseek To Handle its iPhone AI in China
The recent hype surrounding the successful launch of DeepSeek had many
thinking iPhone maker Apple just might select them to power the Apple
Intelligence platform in China.
However, we can confirm that this
is not happening as the company has selected to move ahead with Alibaba
for all iPhone models sold in China. The Cupertino firm was said to
have been in discussion with different companies to determine which one
could be capable of the features of Apple Intelligence.
As per
reports from The Information, Apple was aiming to take Baidu on board
but it failed to meet their standards. Therefore, it had to select other
possibilities and the hunt continued for a few months now.
The
company assessed various models created by Tencent, Bytedance, and
Alibaba. And in the end, the latter has come out on top for Apple.
However, the firm failed to share more details about when it would
launch Apple intelligence in the country.
We
know that Apple is adding support for different languages in two
months. This includes those users based in China, Korea, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, and Vietnam. However, adapting to the Apple Intelligence in
various models will take a longer time.
It’s very much possible
that Apple partners with all of them or different firms in China to
offer the best LLMs along with the iPhone AI. They have done the same
with ChatGPT beginning with the iOS 18.2 variant.
We first heard
about Apple Intelligence making a launch in America late last year with
the latest iOS 18.1 design. While the company no longer needs more
users inside America, it's nowhere near the level that other players
could reach.
Apple Intelligence might be working well with
ChatGPT but the results published so far show that it’s far behind on
the long list of possibilities offered by rivals including Google,
OpenAI, and DeepSeek. We hope to see the tech giant experimenting with
iOS 18.4 at any given moment in time. The new software update was teased
in a way to bring greater screen awareness for Siri.
While the
iPhone maker might be delaying the feature later on for iOS 19, we might
be seeing more major changes rolling out in the year 2026.
