Apple Intelligence Expands to Asia with On-Device LLM Supporting 8 Asian Languages
Apple launched its Apple Intelligence suite across Asia, featuring an on-device LLM that supports Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Hindi. The AI model processes entirely on-device for privacy, with regional optimisations for Asian text input methods and voice recognition.
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