MacRumors: Apple Briefly Posts China Guide for Connecting Siri to Qwen AI »

Apple accidentally posted a guide suggesting Qwen AI will be their primary provider for Siri in China, rather than Google's Gemini models.

Hartley Charlton from MacRumors, reporting on a story from Reuters about a now-removed guide on Apple’s website:

Reuters first spotted the Chinese-language guide on Apple’s support site on August 8, which explained how eligible Mac users in mainland China could connect Qwen, Alibaba’s family of generative AI models, to ‌Siri‌ and Writing Tools. According to the document, the extension required macOS 26.6 or later, needed users to sign into their own Qwen account, and specified that Alibaba was barred from using submitted materials to train or improve its models.

‌Siri‌ would be able to lean on Qwen for more detailed responses to certain requests, including analysis of photos and documents, while Writing Tools could use it to generate text and images. No equivalent guide was published for the iPhone or iPad.

Read the story on MacRumors and read the report from Reuters.

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