Chinese leader Xi Jinping endorsed the building of open-source artificial-intelligence models, touting an approach that has helped the country catch up with the U.S. in global influence.
Xi depicted China as a champion of less-developed nations that fear being left behind as the Trump administration seeks to solidify U.S. dominance in AI. The new body will “answer the call of the Global South,” he said.
Xi said China would do more to help developing countries with AI training and seminars, and would set up AI-focused bodies within the multilateral groupings that China is a member of, including the Brics collection of large emerging economies and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization of Central Asian nations.
I wish these were actually open models releasing their training data and the papers on their inner workings and not only “open” weights.
I want to get a catalog of all the material China plans to release / offer. Trainings? Count me in. Do I need to know Mandarin? I don’t know… But I have trust that it’s probably worth learning.
If the position is really, “we’re going to make sure the rest of the world can keep up with AI…” that sounds like a program I can get behind.