Alibaba has reached a partnership with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence.

According to Alibaba, on October 31, Alibaba reached a partnership with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users will be able to directly access Qwen's text and image understanding, content generation, and other capabilities in Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence. These features will open for testing with the latest iOS developer Beta starting November 4, and will be rolled out to Chinese users with the official release of iOS 27.3 in December. Currently, the Qwen integration features will be available in iOS for users who purchased an iPhone supporting Apple Intelligence in China, or whose device location and Apple Account country/region are both set to China.