Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping is China's leader who delivered a major speech on AI at Shanghai's World AI Conference, calling for openness, global AI governance frameworks, and treating AI as normal technology rather than an existential threat. His remarks endorsing open-source AI development coincided with Chinese AI startups like Moonshot AI releasing competitive open-weight models such as Kimi K3, signaling China's strategy to advance AI capabilities through open-source approaches amid US export controls on advanced chips.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Kimi and Xi
ChinaTalk · 1 week ago ·
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Simon Willison · 1 week ago ·
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Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
Interconnects · 1 week ago ·
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Kimi: Threat or menace?
TechCrunch AI · 2 weeks ago ·
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AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here
Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) · 2 weeks ago ·
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China's Xi Touts Open-Source AI and Takes a Swipe at US Dominance
TLDR · 2 weeks ago ·
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July 2026
Xi Jinping calls for open-source AI development and international AI governance framework Policy change
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model competing with frontier American systems Model release