{"id":217382,"date":"2024-03-27T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/apples-deal-with-baidu-for-generative-ai-use-in-china-isnt-done-yet-apparently\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:52","slug":"apples-deal-with-baidu-for-generative-ai-use-in-china-isnt-done-yet-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/apples-deal-with-baidu-for-generative-ai-use-in-china-isnt-done-yet-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s deal with Baidu for generative AI use in China isn&#8217;t done yet, apparently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Yesterday a report from China claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_will_use_baidu_for_ai_stuff_in_china_reports_say-news-62154.php\">Apple decided to use Baidu<\/a> developed generative AI services in China, but now it looks like someone might have jumped the gun on that.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report today, also from China, the deal isn&#8217;t done, at least not yet. Talks may be ongoing, or not &#8211; this report doesn&#8217;t go into much more detail than saying there is at this point no deal.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/03\/apple-baidu-china-deal-not-done\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Apple's deal with Baidu for generative AI use in China isn't done yet, apparently\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If Apple does in the end agree to use Baidu&#8217;s generative AI services for the Chinese market, this will be baked into iOS 18 scheduled to release to the masses this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Apple can&#8217;t really go with any Western-developed AI, since the Chinese authorities need to approve every single model before it&#8217;s released to the public and it&#8217;s very unlikely any non-Chinese developed ones would get the go-ahead. Hence, Apple has to pick a local partner for this, and Baidu seemed like a shoo-in. Now, not so much. We&#8217;ll have to wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202403\/26\/WS6602b2c1a31082fc043bec68.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a> (in Chinese) | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/03\/26\/apple-baidu-partnership-reportedly-not-reached-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apples_deal_with_baidu_for_generative_ai_use_in_china_isnt_done_yet_apparently-news-62173.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Yesterday a report from China claimed that Apple decided to use Baidu developed generative AI services in China, but now it looks like someone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333793,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217382\/revisions\/333793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}