Kimi and Xi
ChinaTalk Jordan Schneider ● Covered by 14 sources
Chinese AI startup Kimi released model K3 while Xi Jinping delivered his largest speech on AI at Shanghai's World AI Conference, calling for openness and treating AI as normal technology rather than an existential threat. The ChinaTalk podcast team discussed whether China's commitment to open-source AI will hold and analyzed three governance scenarios: Let It Rip (models release without government oversight), a controlled approach, or full nationalization. The key tension is whether Beijing can implement safety guardrails before a Mythos-level model emerges, or whether current openness rhetoric will shift if frontier capabilities prove dangerous.
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