Xi Jinping said China will lead artificial-intelligence cooperation among developing countries. He spoke at the BRICS summit in New Delhi. China will pioneer a BRICS open-source AI community. It will also support joint work on large language models, the systems behind chatbots. Xi proposed a BRICS digital ecosystem cloud platform. He also promised digital skills training, technology exchange and industrial alignment. Further proposals include an engineer training alliance and a youth science exchange. Xi did not address the debate over AI safety. The statement was released by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No timelines, funding or participating institutions were named.
What changed
BRICS had no shared AI programme or joint open-source community.
- 11 BRICS member countries
- BRICS founded 2009
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