Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AI

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Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AIMonday August 10, 2026 5:21 am PDT by Hartley CharltonApple briefly published a support guide in China explaining how Mac users can connect Alibaba's Qwen AI to Siri and Writing Tools, before pulling it entirely less than a day later. Reuters first spotted the Chinese-language guide on Apple's support site on August 8, which explained how eligible Mac users in mainland China could connect Qwen, Alibaba's family of generative AI models, to ‌Siri‌ and Writing Tools. No equivalent guide was published for the iPhone or iPad.

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▪Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AIMonday August 10, 2026 5:21 am PDT by Hartley CharltonApple briefly published a support guide in China explaining how Mac users can connect Alibaba's Qwen AI to Siri and Writing
▪Reuters first spotted the Chinese-language guide on Apple's support site on August 8, which explained how eligible Mac users in mainland China could connect Qwen, Alibaba's family of generative AI models, to ‌Siri‌ and Writing Tools.
▪No equivalent guide was published for the iPhone or iPad.

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▪ Guide to Apple Intelligence using Qwen briefly appears for Apple users in China — AppleInsider
▪ Apple says Mac users in China can connect to Alibaba's Qwen AI service — Hacker News (AI / LLM)

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Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AIMonday August 10, 2026 5:21 am PDT by Hartley CharltonApple briefly published a support guide in China explaining how Mac users can connect Alibaba's Qwen AI to Siri and Writing Tools, before pulling it entirely less than a day later. Reuters first spotted the Chinese-language guide on Apple's support site on August 8, which explained how eligible Mac users in mainland China could connect Qwen, Alibaba's family of generative AI models, to ‌Siri‌ and Writing Tools. According to the document, the extension required macOS 26.6 or later, needed users to sign into their own Qwen account, and specified that Alibaba was barred from using submitted materials to train or improve its models.

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