This development appears to reflect Apple’s efforts to expand the availability of its Apple Intelligence suite to mainland China.

China's tech giant Alibaba has launched new Qwen3 artificial intelligence models for Apple's MLX architecture, Alibaba said in a statement on Monday.

mlx-lm has some tools to scale efficiently to long prompts and generations:. A rotating fixed-size key-value cache. Prompt caching; To use the rotating key-value cache pass the argument --max-kv-size ...

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3 AI models optimized for Apple’s MLX, enabling advanced AI features across iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

Apple Intelligence will soon be available in China, as Alibaba just released its new Qwen3 AI models for Apple's MLX architecture.