Apple's China AI depends on Alibaba
apple trained a custom model with alibaba for its china rollout. it marks a strategic shift for us firms in china's regulated ai market.
apple partnered with alibaba to train a proprietary model for the chinese market, rather than relying solely on existing domestic llms. the model, slated for rollout in the coming months via an ios update, recently cleared registration with china’s cyberspace regulator. this collaboration helps apple navigate beijing's strict generative ai regulations where us models like openai are banned. if successful, apple would become the first us company with an approved proprietary ai model in china.