Ninth World AI Conference in Shanghai Features Xi Address and Open-Weight Releases from Chinese Labs
44Framing Analysis
The ninth World AI Conference occurred in Shanghai, where President Xi Jinping spoke publicly on AI for the first time in nine years. Chinese labs DeepSeek, Qwen, and Moonshot released model weights that users can download, modify, and run locally. Separate unverified reports cite potential exhaustion of high-quality public text data within six years.