Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed Shanghai’s 2026 World AI Conference, China’s largest AI event, opposing US-led restrictions.

Promoted open-source AI and shared global governance.

He warned that broad national-security claims could let powerful countries restrict AI access for others.

China pledged 5,000 AI research, training, and cooperation opportunities for developing-country partners over 5 years.

The speech presented open-source AI as both an industrial policy and a tool of Chinese diplomacy.