Wasn’t expecting this, but I guess it’s obvious now that I see it. Sarah Perez writing at TechCrunch about Apple Intelligence in China:

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’s AI services in the country, on the back of a deal to integrate Alibaba’s Qwen AI model into Apple’s operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

If Qwen proves “good enough”, it also reduces Apple’s dependence on Google.