China will lead the creation of an open source artificial intelligence (AI) with an open eco-system for the Brics grouping, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday against the backdrop of intense competition between Beijing and Washington in the sector.
The AI proposal follows China’s creation of the World AI Cooperation Organisation, a group of some 30 countries. We have granted zero-tariff treatment for all the 53 African countries having diplomatic relations with China. China is working to build an AI ecosystem that provides domestic and international users with lower cost alternatives to US technology. China’s approach contrasts with the closed model approaches of key American developers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. China will also hold the Brics Forum on Trade in Services next year to advance new drivers of economic and trade cooperation. Xi’s proposal for a digital industry cooperation initiative envisages the creation of a Brics digital ecosystem cloud platform, and digital skills training, technological exchange and industrial alignment to jointly develop the digital economy. “A world without rules is like a crossroads without traffic lights, where chaos and disorder are all but guaranteed. “China is opening its door ever wider to the world.
Xi had proposed the “Brics Initiative on Artificial Intelligence Empowering New Industrialisation” and said China will work with other countries to deepen cooperation in industrial and supply chains While addressing the main session of the Brics Summit on Saturday. As part of the trade and investment facilitation initiative, Xi said China will establish a Brics special economic zone partnership, under which countries can set up an intelligent portal, coordinate policies and build a “new frontier for open development”. Xi pointed to changes accelerating around the world and the Global South becoming a key driver of multipolarity at a time when the global landscape is “volatile and fraught with risks and challenges”. Brics countries must rally the Global South and become a stabilising force to bring stability to the world, he said. Fairness and justice is a universal aspiration, and international rules must be written by all countries,” Xi said, noting that the logic of “might makes right” no longer holds. We will continue to broaden independent and unilateral opening up, and share the opportunities of China’s development with other countries,” Xi said.
