Tim Cook praises China-Ki Deepseek

Apple Intelligence should come to China as soon as possible. Since the Communist Party does not allow pure US technology for this, Apple rely on local partners. (Also) For this purpose, CEO Tim Cook once again visited the Middle Kingdom – and said good over the Chinese AI in front of local media. This applies in particular to the hyped start-up Deepseek, the models of which should be particularly efficient.

Cook in Beijing and then probably in Shanghai

According to a report of the South China Morning Post published in Hong Kong Recommended Cook Deepseek At the edge of the China Development Forum in Beijing. Compared to the China News Service, he told Deepseek models were “excellent”. However, Cook is said to have not given any further information – for example why he sees it. In Beijing, Cook was traveling with local influencers, among other things, as he spread at the Weibo short message service including photos. In the coming week, Apple is planning a developer conference in Shanghai, which is supposed to deal specifically with the topic of AI in China. Local developers should learn how to use the technology in their apps.

Cook is regularly in China and was at least three times on site last year-also to create a good atmosphere for iPhone sales that are said to have broken into the country because users are increasingly buying Chinese brands. In addition, there is the pressure of the new US government under Donald Trump to move production to Germany-and its tariffs on Chinese production.

Alibaba is supposed to deliver his AI to Apple

Apple wants to offer Apple Intelligence in more languages ​​in April. Chinese is also on the agenda. It remains to be seen whether this means that the local partner is already on board. In February it was said that the e-commerce giant Alibaba allegedly made the race with its QWen models. Chatgpt from Openaai is officially not released in China.

How Apple deals with its own voice models and image generators in China is still open. Deepseek was praised because of his skills, but censored, among other things, Chinese history. Most recently, the hype around the system was clearly flown away. Openai had accused Deepseek, Copied parts of his technology to have.