The Tech giant Apple's iPhone headphones in China will use artificial intelligence (AI) from the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, confirms Alibaba's chairman Joseph Tsai in connection with an appearance in Dubai.
The information had spread in industry media earlier in the week before the confirmation.
For Apple, the collaboration is a way to handle large sales setbacks in China since arch-rival Huawei Technologies launched mobile phones with AI.
Apple has been very selective. They talked to several companies in China and in the end chose to do business with us. They want to use our AI in their mobile phones, said Tsai.
Apple has previously made an agreement to incorporate the AI tool Chat GPT from Open AI in their mobile phones in other countries.
China is Apple's second-largest market in the world after the USA, and the iPhone manufacturer's sales in China fell by 11 percent at the end of 2024, as competitors such as Huawei took market shares.
