AI BriefingChina's Free AI Model Diplomacy
Key point
China is expanding its influence in the Global South by leading with free AI models and open source.
Details
A Chinese delegation presented a plan at the UN AI for Good Summit to provide China-made AI models for free to the Global South. Semafor analyzed this as China's 'token diplomacy,' following infrastructure and telecom networks.
Alibaba Cloud's chief architect Wang Jian described Chinese AI as a resource other countries can use, saying it's important for each country to have a choice. Semafor reported that Alibaba Cloud started small but is now growing faster than AWS.
An official from Tanzania's ICT Commission assessed that while the US leads, China is quickly catching up. President Xi Jinping also urged the expansion of open source at a separate AI conference and warned against overly broadening the concept of national security.
The World AI Cooperation Organization, which China is promoting, currently has 29 countries participating, and the US is not included.
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