Recently, Apple reporter Mark Gurman revealed that the China version of Apple iOS 18.6 will activate some Apple Intelligence functions, and this function will be jointly provided with technical support by Baidu and Alibaba.
According to reports, in this cooperation, Alibaba is responsible for developing the review engine. Meanwhile, Baidu will deeply integrate its AI technology with Apple's Siri and Visual Intelligence. This means that Baidu will take on two major tasks - chatting and searching - playing a key role in Apple's AI functions.
It is worth mentioning that recently, Baidu has made new moves in the AI field, releasing Wenxin Large Model 4.5 Turbo and Wenxin Large Model X1 Turbo. Among them, Wenxin Large Model X1 Turbo is a deep reasoning model.
Official test results show that the overall performance of this model leads DeepSeek R1 and V3 latest versions, and its calling price is only 25% of DeepSeek R1, showing advantages in performance and cost.
For Apple, the launch of AI in the China version is significant. Over the past period, there has been a noticeable decline in iPhone shipments. Against this background, Apple AI is highly anticipated and will bear the important mission of boosting iPhone sales.