SITUATION EXPLAINED: Apple trained its own model for China, with Alibaba's help. • This makes Apple the first foreign company Beijing has cleared to run its own proprietary AI model in China, registered by the Cyberspace Administration last month • It's a break from the prior plan of relying entirely on Chinese third-party models. • Now it's dual-track, Apple's own model alongside Qwen and Baidu tech • Alibaba builds Qwen, backs Kimi, and now trains Apple's model @theojaffee: "Everything that…