It's the first time in the history of the world.
Apple has officially announced this morning that Apple Smart will be rolling out its flagship iPhone, Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence to directly call Alibaba's queries!
The first features were tested openly on November 4 with the latest iOS developer beta release, which was released in December with iOS 27.3.
In addition to the related capabilities, the rest of the functionality is provided byApple's self-developed modelDriving.
The first features were only on the iPhone.
Supported models include iPhone 16 and its successors, iPhone Duo, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone Air.
Siri and device languages need to be in Simplified Chinese or English.
The iPad and Mac are not supported.
Apple has said that support for other platforms will be launched after receiving the necessary approval.
The functions of Apple's self-development modelApple has stated in a press release that the following features are driven by a generative model built by Apple:
- Real-time translation, integrated with messages, FaceTime calls and phone apps, can be translated when sending messages and calling. The official presentation includes Spanish-language chat and German-language calls respectively. AirPods 5 and AirPods 4 with active noise reduction support, AirPods Pro 2 and subsequent models, or AirPods Max 2, can also translate face-to-face conversations.
- Writing tools for rewriting, editing and abstracts of input text.
- Photos, elimination tools can remove objects that interfere with the image, and natural language searches can use a single description to find the corresponding photo or video.
- E-mails with notifications, a new "priority" area at the top of the inbox, putting emergency emails such as the invitation of the day, the boarding pass in the front row. Long emails can generate summaries, and notifications on the lock screen will be summarized, with the most urgent ones at the top. In the official screenshot, each summary is marked below as "A summary generated by AI".
- Siri supports typed conversations. The user expresses inconsistencies, and Siri understands intentions, allowing a series of conversations to be kept in context.
- Siri: Ask questions when dealing with specific requests. Users can also ask questions with photos, or documents such as PDFs, presentation documents, etc.
- Writing tools: Compose with Qwen, which can generate content from scratch on any subject, and images.
- Visual intelligence: When the camera is aimed at an object, you can select "Ask a Thousand Questions", which can be opened via the camera control, the operating button or the control center.
The integration requires the user to open it themselves, and you can log in with an Apple account, or you can log in with an App account.
Before sending questions, documents, and images to the query, the system requires the user's consent.
Alibaba said that neither user requests nor responses generated will be used for model training.
The following requirements must be met: Buy an iPhone in China that supports Apple smartphones, or locate the device and have an Apple account in a country or region located in China.
Alibaba Group's CEO Xiangming said that the company is "deeply integrating the experiences of Apple's ecosystem to bring a whole new smart service to Apple users in China".
Alibaba has signed a partnership with Apple to integrate 1000 queries into Apple smartphones
Features not included this timeApple's press release states that this update does not include Siri AI, nor any of the other next-generation Apple smart features announced at WWDC 2026.
I'm looking forward to the updates.
Alibaba has partnered with Apple to integrate 1000 queries into Apple's smartphones.
