While Apple may be talking to Google about adopting the search giant’s Gemini AI for upcoming releases of iOS, over in China that’s not a feasible plan, seeing as how Google services are banned. So, a local player is the answer, and it seems like Apple found it in Baidu, long called “the Google of China” – how fitting.
News from China today reveals that Baidu is set to provide AI services to Apple’s latest devices – only in China, of course. Baidu will be Apple’s generative AI provider in the country, starting with the upcoming release of iOS 18 this fall.
Apple has reportedly…