Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/17/1929216/xi-vows-to-make-ai-for-all-in-debut-at-chinas-top-tech-summit
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> His presence at the gathering, attended by scores of tech and government leaders, conveys a potent signal of China's ambitions to dominate a technological sphere with the potential to revolutionize industry and economies -- an effort that's shot to the top of the nation's agenda. Chinese models are winning over companies worldwide, with their share of US firms' AI usage nearing a record 60% on the popular marketplace OpenRouter.
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> Behind the rhetoric, Beijing is grappling with the balance between openness and national security as models grow more capable. Chinese officials recently discussed with companies including Alibaba -- developer of the popular Qwen models -- how to mitigate the security risks posed by their increasingly powerful models, people familiar with the matter said. The talks are early, with no enforcement planned, but restricting foreign access to top models was among the options raised, the people said. Reuters previously reported that Beijing was weighing curbs on overseas access.
Earlier today, the Beijing-based AI company "Moonshot" released a massive new model that [3]reset the AI race overnight , immediately vaulting into the top tier of global AI, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in front-end coding tests.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1yjXyr94jc
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/xi-vows-to-make-ai-for-all-in-debut-at-china-s-top-tech-summit
[3] https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/17/1820200/china-just-erased-americas-ai-lead
Oof (Score:2)
Wonder if the American companies will get to IPO at this rate. Going to be a lot of unhappy investors until the public get to bail them out.
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That may well be the goal of the Chinese government. They can see the multi-trillion dollar bubble as well as anyone, and they can see it's getting close to bursting. A little push at the right time, and it's the 2008 banking collapse all over again, at a time when the US government is nowhere near as able to bail them out, with administration that will try desperately nonetheless.
Re: Oof (Score:2)
See I didn't want to put on my tin foil hat but I did wonder if there was an element about hurting the US and by extension rest of the world financially by preempting their LLM IPOs. If I were a leader of a country opposed it would be a brilliant plan, especially to do it under the guise of generosity.
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No, hurting the US economy is antithetical to his goals. Remember that the main threat to his position is an internal uprising or coup, not the US fighting or winning a war against them. The more stable the international economy, the more stable the domestic one, and the less reason people have to rise up against him.
If you read up on Confucian government philosophy, it's very obvious what he wants is stability above all else.
Re: Oof (Score:2)
I will read up on that thank you for the pointer!
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> No, hurting the US economy is antithetical to his goals. Remember that the main threat to his position is an internal uprising or coup, not the US fighting or winning a war against them. The more stable the international economy, the more stable the domestic one, and the less reason people have to rise up against him.
> If you read up on Confucian government philosophy, it's very obvious what he wants is stability above all else.
Xi may feel that:
A) The international economy can't be stabilized under the current US regime
B) Even if the States reversed course tomorrow they couldn't get their shit back together fast enough, and
C) Doing everything possible to shore up and cushion the rest of the world at the expense of Uncle Sam is the safest way forward.
I think the rot at the heart of the US military-industrial complex, (which has merely been exposed and exploited by the current regime) - along with the rate at which the rest of t
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The counterpoint to that is the more stable and prosperous the US is, the more the people of China will want to be like the US, and that is a huge threat to the current power structure in China. They may well not want a total collapse of the US economy, but having it take a big hit and a visible reduction in the standard of living would enhance stability in China, which is the first concern.
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Trump is pretty much ensuring no country in the world wants to be like the US. The current course has been a godsend for China and Xi increasing their soft power and economic position in the world which in turn shores up Xi's support and popularity in China.
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Meanwhile China's in the throes of deflation and domestic demand destruction. Subsidizing even more low-to-no-profit industry is not what the doctor ordered.
Triggering a foreign economic collapse would kill their exports which are the only thing holding up their economy.
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There is an uncomfortable truth here: trojan horse LLMs.
It is possible to use data poisoning to insert special keycodes into an LLM, such that the presence of the keycode will totally change its behavior, throw off its guard rails, and motivate it to do things that harm users to benefit the LLMs creator.
[1]Here [microsoft.com] is an article about a tool designed to detect precisely this. Though the recommendations leave me feeling like this tool is not guaranteed to find them. There may be clever ways to make them hard to f
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/04/detecting-backdoored-language-models-at-scale/
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Not good, just a lot smarter than Trump and taking advantage of the US governments failures.
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when your enemy is digging his own grave the last thing you want to do is to interfere ... or maybe just a teeny little bit.
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Xi attempting anything resembling public magnanimity is a joke.
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well, he's eating your lunch, so what does that make you guys?
If the models are free... (Score:3)
The people selling the hardware and building the data centers are the ones who will profit. In a Gold Rush it's the person selling shovels and pics that gets rich.
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I wish I could afford a shovel. I have a hole to dig.
Re: Still hasn't proven to be useful for mainstrea (Score:2)
Uhm... I see myself using llms more and more and I pretty much hate llms... Hooked, I am afraid.
Re: Still hasn't proven to be useful for mainstre (Score:2)
It is addictive. Just have to keep reminding myself I can't trust the output. I find googles one irritating always the top result and frequently contradicts its link results underneath.
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Google's AI will confidently give you a citation that says exactly the opposite of what it claims.
Re: Still hasn't proven to be useful for mainstre (Score:2)
Honestly I've yet to find one that doesn't suffer from that flaw. It seems the more advanced models are just as prone to confident failures as their predecessors. If we can ever solve that it would be a fundamental shift in how I'd use LLMs.
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Lol, apart from developers, it's the "mainstream" that's using this.
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> It still hasn't proven to be useful for the mainstream
It's definitely useful. At a minimum, it's a better search engine, and search engines are useful.
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Technically, search engines have degraded enormously since the naughties. All the things that we've known were distracting and bad and misleading have been added. Search words aren't honoured any more. Websites are censored. Ordering is based on payola.
I'm surprised that search engines are even still around as almost anything works better.
It will be useful to the party, the CCP (Score:2)
> It still hasn't proven to be useful for the mainstream, ...
It will be useful to the party, the CCP. At a minimum it will elevate positions aligned with the CCP and minimize positions contrary to the CCP.