Apple said to be in talks with tennant, bytedance to roll out iPhone ai features in China

Apple is in talks with Tencent and tiktok owner Bytedance About integrating their artificial intelligence models into iphones sold in china, according to three sources family with the matter.

The us firm started the rollout of Openai’s Chatgpt into its devices this month, part of the Apple Intelligence Product that Allows Its Siri Voice Assistant to Tap The Chatbot’s Expertise Including on User Queries About PHOTOS and DoCUMENTS Such Presentations.

Chatgpt is not available in China and the country’s regulatory requirements mandate that generative Ai Services Obtain Government Approval Before Public Release, Forcing Apple to seek local partners for its

Apple’s Discussions with tennant and bytedance on using their ai models are at a very early stage, said the sources, who declined to be named as the talks are not public.

Bytedance declined to comment, while apple and tensent did not respond immediatively to requests for comment.

A successful partner for apple’s ai services in China count be a Major winner in the country’s Increasing As well as startups.

They include bytedance’s doubao, tenant’s Hunyuan and Search Engine Giant Baidu’s Ernie.

Apple and Baidu have reportedly been in talks about using the latter’s ai model in china, but the information this month reported the discusations Faced Setbacks Due to Technical Issues, INCLUDING DISPUTES OVERSITES OVERSITES iPhone user data to train ai models.

Baidu did not respond immediatily to a request for comment.

The Absence of Ai Capability in the latest iphones Sold in china has become a major setback for apple, as it faces declining market share in the world’s biggest smartphone market due to growing competition from domestic brands if.

Huawei, which returned to the high-end market in August with a phone using a chinese-made chip, launched its mate 70 series 70 series last month featuring ai capability power Model.

Apple briefly fell out of china’s top five smartphone vendors in the second Quarter Before Recovering in the Third Quarter. The US company’s smartphone sales in china stil slipped 0.3 percent during the third quarter from a year earlier, while huawei’s sales surged 42 percent, according to reserch form idc.

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