Chinese President Xi Jinping's message to American technology companies on AI

Chinese President Xi Jinping used China’s biggest tech stage to draw a sharp line between how Beijing and Washington think about artificial intelligence—and the difference comes down to one word: openness. Speaking at the opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday, Xi urged countries to grab the “historic opportunity” of open-source AI and warned against letting a single nation dominate the technology.He never named the United States. He didn’t need to. With American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic guarding their frontier models behind closed doors, Xi’s pitch landed as a direct challenge to the way Silicon Valley operates. “China is ready to be more open, take more practical actions, and assume a more visionary perspective,” he said. His framing was blunt