The deal between Apple and local firm Baidu to bring a form of Apple Intelligence to China is reportedly faltering because of technical and philosophical privacy issues.
Apple Intelligence could provide the boost to iPhone sales in China that Apple needs, after years of decline and increasing local competition. But while Apple theoretically could go it alone with Apple Intelligence in the country, in practice it has to partner with a Chinese firm — and it’s facing difficulties.
While it has now partnered with Baidu, after local media first denied it had, The Information says that the partnership is struggling. The difficulty includes how Baidu’s large language models (LLMs) have been failing to provide the kind of responses Apple wants for typical iPhone user questions.
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