Xi Jinping calls for more open-source AI: 'China is ready to be more open'

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that we should "encourage open-source, openness, collaboration, and sharing." Ng Han Guan-Pool/Getty Images China's leader, Xi Jinping, promoted open-source AI in a speech on Thursday. "We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open-source," he said. While most leading US models are closed, Chinese models such as Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 are open. The world's AI superpowers differ on a key strategy: openness. Chinese leader Xi Jinping shared his philosophy on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. He called for both more regulation of the tech — as well as open-sourcing it. In a list of four observations, Xi first called for a "principle of openness." "We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open-source, openness, collaboration, and sharing," Xi said.