Apple brings Alibaba's Qwen AI to Macs in China

Apple is letting people who use Mac computers in China connect to an AI service made by a Chinese company called Alibaba.

This AI service is named Qwen.

Qwen is like a smart helper that can write text, make pictures, and look at photos and documents.

It can work with Siri, the voice assistant on Apple devices.

If you ask Siri a question, Qwen can help give a more detailed answer.

It can also look at your photos and documents if you ask it to.

Apple's Writing Tools feature can also use Qwen to create text or images.

Apple is doing this because it wants to compete with other computer makers in China.

Some Chinese companies, like Lenovo, already build their own AI features into computers.

Now Apple Mac users in China can get these kinds of AI features too.