Apple didn't immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Apple has been rushing to incorporate artificial intelligence into its devices to get ahead of rivals. Reuters had earlier reported that the iPhone maker is in talks with Tencent and TikTok owner ByteDance about integrating their artificial intelligence models into iPhones sold in China.

Tencent has launched advertising for Yuanbao on nearly all products in its product ecosystem, digital content marketing platform DataEye reported yesterday. The app ranked second on the free download charts on Apple's mainland App Store on Feb. 22, behind only DeepSeek-R1.

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Chinese internet giant Baidu said on Tuesday it had purchased social media platform JOYY Inc's livestreaming business for $2.1 billion, a year after it canceled a deal partly because it failed to get government approval.