Apple Intelligence Registers with Chinese Regulator for Tablets and Laptops

BEIJING: Apple’s generative artificial intelligence service, Apple Intelligence, has been registered for use on tablets and laptops in China, marking another step towards its wider rollout in the country.

Shanghai’s cyberspace regulator announced the registration on Monday. China requires companies to register large language models and generative AI services with regulators before making them available to the public.

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Apple previously secured Chinese regulatory approval to introduce Apple Intelligence on iPhones in July.

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The latest registration covers Apple Intelligence on tablets and laptops. It follows the company’s efforts to adapt its AI services to China’s regulatory requirements.

Apple has worked with Alibaba to develop AI capabilities for the Chinese market. Reuters reported in August that Apple had trained a large language model specifically for China with Alibaba’s support.

This marks a shift from the company’s approach of relying on third-party models to power its AI features in the country.

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Alibaba said Chinese users would be able to access its Qwen model’s text and image understanding and content generation capabilities through Siri, Apple’s writing tools and Visual Intelligence.

In an October statement, Alibaba said the features would begin rolling out to Chinese users in December with iOS 27.3. A test version was released on November 4.

The regulatory registration adds to Apple’s efforts to expand its artificial intelligence services in one of its key markets.