News from the home of IT on October 15th: Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman ( Mark Gurman ) reported today (October 15th) on the X platform that Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China for the first time in December with the iOS 27.3 update. This will be the first time this AI platform enters the Chinese market.
The initial set of features includes Genmoji custom emojis, notification summaries, writing tools, as well as the Clean Up feature in the photo application, which allows users to remove specific objects from photos.

The report indicates that the new version of Siri AI assistant, the image park generation tool, and the newer version of Genmoji are not included in the initial rollout scope.
The Chinese mainland version will integrate Alibaba's AI models, including Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) and Tongyi Wanshang (Tongyi Wanxiang). Reports indicate that Apple obtained regulatory approval from China on September 29, allowing the recent iPhone to support the use of Apple Intelligence and the aforementioned models.

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