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Apple has trained its own large-language model specifically for the Chinese market, working with Alibaba to develop the system. This effort would make Apple the first foreign firm to provide a proprietary AI model in China, marking a notable expansion of its artificial-intelligence capabilities within the region.
Apple Intelligence has received regulatory approval for use on iPhones in China. The service will be launched in partnership with Chinese firms, employing Alibaba’s Qwen model and collaborating with Baidu. The rollout follows the regulator’s registration of the AI offering for deployment within the country.
Beijing has convened meetings with major tech firms, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, to discuss limiting overseas access to its advanced AI models. The Chinese government is weighing broader restrictions on the export of these technologies. Meanwhile, U.S. officials are considering measures to curb corporate use of Chinese AI systems.
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illicitly accessing and extracting capabilities from its Claude AI models through an extensive adversarial distillation campaign, describing it as the largest cloning effort to date. The alleged activity involved thousands of accounts accessing the model tens of thousands of times between April and June. Following the accusation, Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares dropped about five percent, contributing to a 33 percent year-to-date decline.
The U.S. Department of Defense has placed several Chinese firms on a list of entities that support the Chinese military, including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree. The designation marks these companies as “military-linked” under the Pentagon’s Chinese military companies list.