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Policy2026-07-17 · source-backed
Al Jazeera reports Xi delivered the keynote at Shanghai's World AI Conference (July 17–20), urging nations to seize the "historic opportunity" of open-source AI and ensure equitable access for developing countries. A day earlier, 29 founding countries including Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and South Africa signed to establish the Shanghai-headquartered World AI Cooperation Organization. It's a second institutional framework for AI governance built to rival the Washington/Brussels/G7 axis, and the open-source framing is a deliberate contrast to the West's safety-and-controls posture.
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