Alibaba To Partner With Apple On AI Features, Sending Shares To 3-Year High

Alibaba will partner with Apple to support AI features on iPhones in China, sending Alibaba's shares surging over 9% to a three-year high. Reuters reports: "They talked to a number of companies in China. In the end they chose to do business with us. They want to use our AI to power their phones. We feel extremely honored to do business with a great company like Apple," Tsai said at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Apple continues to work with Baidu on AI features for iPhones in China, The Information reported on Thursday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

While Apple's phones outside China utilize a combination of its proprietary Apple Intelligence and OpenAI's ChatGPT, Tsai did not specify whether the Alibaba partnership would follow a similar model. In China, consumer-facing AI products require regulatory approval, and The Information reported earlier that both Alibaba and Apple have already submitted materials to authorities. "Instead of viewing the Alibaba-Apple partnership through the lens of China's AI strength, the partnership is mainly a recognition of Alibaba's AI capability," said Lian Jye Su, a chief analyst at tech research firm Omdia.

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[sabbede]

Or conversely, it will cause wages to rise.

Two as one

[phantomfive]

The team up of incompetents. Steve Jobs was good at convincing highly skilled people to work with them, and bringing out their best. Upper management at Apple has lost that skill. So now they cancel products, and team up with another group that has fallen behind.

Aristotle really brought his wisdom to this situation, "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." So rich and intelligent he was.

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[sabbede]

Apple got sued by the makers of a Chinese chatbot and lost. I think this may have been their only way to provide something like Siri in China.

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[phantomfive]

Seems to be a reference to this case [flatfeecorp.com]. I can't see anywhere that they won/lost yet, the case seems to be ongoing.

This is clearly an instance of "Creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need that weighs heavily upon man’s mood, so that he comes to be." -Heidigger. The echo is profound.

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[sabbede]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

What's the one where he just uses repeated inflections of "ground"?

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[gtall]

Quoting Heidegger without any subsequent analysis that you actually understood what he said is to echo pointlessness.

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[phantomfive]

Heidegger's quote clearly supports my post. I think your problem is "the aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity," as read in Wittgenstein.

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[drinkypoo]

It's not only incompetence, it's willingness to assist a fascist regime because of their bottom line. They have to protect slave labor to keep their device manufacturing costs down. When China demanded Apple and Google make changes to their operations to accommodate their oppression, Google pulled out and Apple stayed, and made those changes as required. On one hand it makes sense as Apple is much more a hardware vendor, and Google doesn't need any software to come out of China at all but Apple very much do

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[phantomfive]

I appreciate the line of reasoning, but everyone is using their slave labor, so there must be something else besides that which is attracting Apple.

It's likely the situation to which Derrida referred, "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." --Jaques Derrida.

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[ihavesaxwithcollies]

On the other hand, it's still kowtowing to evil.

Oh, give me a fucking break. The current american govt kowtows to evil, Putin, everyday of the week and twice on Sundays.

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[drinkypoo]

So then you approve?

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[antdude]

Apple needs to bring back Steve Jobs. Oh wait...

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[phantomfive]

Now with AI, you can!! [haruka.ai]

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[antdude]

Is there an English version? I can't read that asian language. :(