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.

Lambert notes that Xi Jinping's WAIC address was the first senior-leader comment on open-source AI policy in China, coinciding with the Kimi K3 release, signaling low perceived risk from open-weight frontier models. ✦ AI generated

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · 2026-07-20 · original ↗

This changed this week too, as Xi Jinping gave a keynote address at the World AI Conference (WAIC), and very directly committed the future of China's AI ecosystem to open-source and global diffusion. This commitment to the status quo, the same week as the announcement of the strongest open-weight model to date, is a clear mark in the early history of modern AI.

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