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Apple's beta routes some Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence requests to Alibaba's Qwen model, with handoff to the Qwen app for deeper tasks. For AI readers, this is a notable case of a platform assistant delegating to a third-party foreign model, which raises open questions about data flow, regional availability, and how much users will see which model is answering. The key details to watch are the actual privacy terms and whether the beta expands beyond testing.
Apple Intelligence Beta Launches, Siri Supports Direct Handoff to Qwen
36Kr has learned that Apple Intelligence was opened for testing in the early hours of November 4 alongside the latest iOS developer beta. Users can directly access Qwen's text and image understanding, content generation, and other capabilities through Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence. On iPhone, users can perform basic Q&A, image-text analysis, and content generation, and for further needs, they can tap to jump directly to the Qwen app, with conversation information automatically synced.
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