Alibaba's Qwen goes live inside Siri on Chinese Macs after two-year regulatory wait
Apple switched on Alibaba’s Qwen model for Mac users in mainland China on August 8, 2026. Now Siri and Writing Tools get answers and write text using Qwen.
Apple has publicly confirmed that the integration is now live. It added a Chinese-approved AI engine inside its software for the country’s biggest device base.
A Qwen login now gates Siri on Mac computers
Mac owners must first go into system settings and log in to a Qwen account, Apple’s site states. Only then does Siri start getting answers from Qwen, and Writing Tools begins drafting text with it.
Users will choose when to use Qwen and will be prompted before anything is shared with it. They can also toggle a setting to let Siri route requests to Qwen.
Alibaba is prohibited from using any of these requests to train or improve its models.
The feature is part of Apple Intelligence, which Apple still calls a Beta. The language list includes Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Apple’s Chinese pages for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro advertise nothing about Qwen support. In July, Qwen was supposed to come to Apple Intelligence on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS in China.
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