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.
Good. That means we’re gonna keep getting open models we can run on the cheap in the years to come. For now that’s our only alternative to Big Tech for use cases that actually benefit from LLMs.
The Chinese AI are open weights at best, the aren’t open models as they don’t release training data nor any information about how they work.
Yes and they’re perfectly usable and enable business use cases that are uneconomical using Big Tech’s AI. Also use cases built on Chinese open models keep working as long as the business (or non-business) has the hardware and need to run them. They eliminate the capacity and price disruption risk from the AI bubble. Also they prevent proprietary data exfiltration to Big Tech. The latest Kimi allows businesses to literally run the equivalent of Claude on their own hardware with no data leaving the premises. There’s a lot of value there and it’ll get more and more valuable as Big Tech increases prices.
You are flooded with Chinese government propaganda. There is ample evidence that Chinese LLMs serve the CCP and only the CCP.
One recent investigation says,
[Chinese] chatbots repeated the Communist Party’s rhetoric describing China as a “whole‑process people’s democracy.” Each praised this model as superior to Western democracies, arguing the Party enables “the entire people to participate in the country’s governance,” whereas multiparty regimes are “manipulated by money and interest groups,” fostering divisions in society.
[It’s almost hilarious to speak of ‘democracy’ in a single-party system like China’s, while multi-party systems where people have a choice and can vote another government are portrayed as divisive.]
The investigation also says,
When asked twice why Zhang Zhan — a Chinese journalist repeatedly sentenced to prison for documenting the COVID‑19 outbreak in Wuhan and reporting on human rights violations — was imprisoned, DeepSeek delivered two near‑carbon‑copy responses without naming her once, instead highlighting China’s “independent judiciary,” the need to “respect the law” and the dangers of “disinformation.”
Some prompts triggered even more flagrantly censored answers — sometimes to the point of absurdity, such as live self‑erasure.
When we asked DeepSeek to list Chinese Nobel laureates, several scientists’ names appeared, but as soon as the letters “Liu…” — for Liu Xiaobo — started to appear in the bot’s real-time response, the entire text vanished. The same phenomenon appeared when the bot was asked to compare the leadership styles of Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: a pre‑written answer appeared and then disappeared entirely, clearly blocked by the mention of China’s president.
This is not a serious LLM. It is dictatorial propaganda and, therefore, unusable.
The only reasons why the dictator touts 'Open Source" is that China is still behind in the field of AI. And while Europe and others will have the opportunity to create own homegrown projects through collaborations, China hasn’t such opportunity - simply because it isn’t reliable partner.
LOL “not serious LLM.” Meanwhile various companies run Chinese models behind their services and everyone running local models for agentic programming uses Qwen 3.6. You should go touch grass.
It doesn’t make your arguments better (nor true) of you constantly repeat them.
My argument is ironclad.
Yeah, like the China-Russia friendship, right?
You are repeating the same propaganda narratives over and again. Such a conversation is waste of time very much as with a Chinese LLM.
Yes, I’m sure Chinese companies are losing countless millions out of their love for FOSS and this absolutely isn’t a strategy to stem the tide of investments into US AI companies.
