Xi proposes a BRICS open-source AI zone at the New Delhi summit, the same weekend US labs asked to slow down
Euronews (corroborated by CNBC and The Japan Times)·high signal
At the closing session of the 11-nation BRICS summit, Xi Jinping said China will pioneer a BRICS AI open-source community, support joint large language model development and application, and run AI seminars and training for member states. It is one of five points in his "initiative on open-source and inclusive AI." The timing places China's pitch to the Global South directly opposite a US frontier-pacing proposal, and both r/singularity and r/OpenAI picked it up within hours.