New Delhi, July 17 -- no Writing Tools, no expanded Siri, no on-device intelligence. That ends now. China's Cyberspace Administration has approved Apple Intelligence for the Chinese market, with Alibaba's Qwen AI models powering the features Siri cannot do alone.

The regulatory green light, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, allows Apple to integrate AI capabilities into iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for mainland China users, according to TechCrunch. Alibaba's Qwen models will handle text and image understanding and generation, the same capabilities Apple has deployed through its own and OpenAI-powered backend everywhere else. Baidu is also developing Apple Intelligence features for Chinese users, with an independent integration ...