Apple reporter Mark Gurman broke the news that the Chinese version of Apple iOS 18.6 will enable some Apple Intelligence features.Technical support is jointly provided by Baidu and Alibaba.It is reported that Alibaba is responsible for developing the review engine, and Baidu's AI technology is deeply integrated with Siri and Visual Intelligence, which means that Baidu will take on the two important tasks of chat and search at the same time.
Industry insiders say that based on past experience, security modules generally only account for about 10% of AI services. Baidu may still provide Apple with core AI capabilities.
It is worth mentioning that Baidu recently released Wenxin Model 4.5 Turbo and Wenxin Model X1 Turbo. The latter is a deep inference model. Official test results show that its overall effect is ahead of the latest versions of DeepSeek R1 and V3, and the price is 25% of the calling price of DeepSeek R1.
The National Bank version of AI is of great significance to Apple, because iPhone shipments have declined significantly in the past period.According to a report published by IDC,In the first quarter of 2025, Apple’s smartphone shipments in the Chinese market fell by 9% year-on-year.Market share fell to 13.7% from 17.4% in the previous quarter.
Therefore, Apple urgently needs to boost iPhone sales, and Apple AI will take on this important task.
