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China should seize the current historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration, and sharing.

Xi Jinping is quoted calling for China to seize a 'rare, historic opportunity' to promote open source and collaborative sharing. ✦ AI generated

Xi Jinping · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-20 · original ↗

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We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing.

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Xi Jinping's keynote at the World AI Conference directly committed China's AI ecosystem to open-source release and global diffusion, the first time senior Chinese leadership has publicly staked out a national position on open-source AI — and it landed the same week as the strongest open-weight model release to date.Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · conf 60%

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explains mechanism → Alibaba's reversal to release Qwen 3.8 Max as open weights, after declining to release Qwen 3.7 Max in May, may have been influenced by Xi Jinping's recent speech encouraging open source.Ben Thompson · Simon Willison's Weblog