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China signs 29 nations into a rival AI bloc while open-source models do the real work
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China signs 29 nations into a rival AI bloc while open-source models do the real work
Xi Jinping's debut at the World AI Conference in Shanghai last week produced a 29-nation AI governance bloc and a sharper question for the rest of the world: whose AI stack do you run? China's open-weight GLM-5.2 model and $295 billion infrastructure plan suggest Beijing is betting that openness, not secrecy, wins the Global South.
Janet Harrison
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