Increasing the possibility of cooperation between Apple and Bytedance to provide artificial intelligence to Chinese iPhone users

Providing AI-based capabilities on the iPhone, known as Apple Intelligence, has come with many challenges. New reports indicate that Apple will probably cooperate with one of the indigenous companies to overcome these obstacles, and ByteDance has a good chance of gaining such a position.

Why does Apple need Chinese companies?

Not long ago, there were reports that Apple had collaborated with Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and ByteDance to provide artificial intelligence services. Due to the strict laws and regulations of the Chinese government, along with the need to censor content that contradicts the values ​​of the ruling party, Apple cannot provide its Intelligence service in China. This issue has caused Apple to go to local Chinese companies that know better the mechanism of compliance with the aforementioned laws and can be used to provide features based on artificial intelligence to iPhone users.

What is the reason for Bytedance’s superiority over other competitors?

It now appears that Apple is likely to choose ByteDance as its AI business partner in China, and Tencent has been left out of the running for the position. Economic News Daily has announced that Bytedance wants to double its investment capacity in the field of artificial intelligence in 2025 and reach $22 billion. Such a huge investment can make it easier for Apple to provide enough processing power to provide services to a large number of users of this company’s products and make ByteDance a better option for cooperation.

Bytedance’s investment in the field of productive artificial intelligence to date is about 80 million yuan, which is almost the same as other domestic competitors of the company, such as Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. Of course, the Doubao Bytedance chatbot has much more users than other Chinese services and ranks second after ChatGPT in terms of popularity. It is worth noting that China is known to be the largest smartphone market in terms of number of shipments and Apple never wants to lose its current share of this attractive market.