Premier Li Qiang proposed a global AI cooperation organization, challenging U.S. dominance amid tech competition. He criticized technological monopolies and promoted open-source AI, particularly for developing nations.

In recent months, Beijing has promoted China’s “open” innovation and willingness to “share indigenous technologies”. The country’s top AI groups, DeepSeek and Alibaba, have made their large language models (LLMs) available to developers worldwide as open-source technology.

China's Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told a roundtable of representatives from over 30 countries, including Russia, South Africa, Qatar, South Korea and Germany, that China wanted the organisation to promote pragmatic cooperation in AI and was considering putting its headquarters in Shanghai.