{"slug": "china-s-plan-to-win-over-the-world-with-free-ai-with-amy-lyons", "title": "China's Plan to Win Over the World with Free AI — with Amy Lyons", "summary": "Chinese President Xi Jinping pitched free, open-source Chinese AI models to developing nations at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, as China launched WAICO, a new 29-member intergovernmental AI organization. Mathematicians Yu Deng and Hong Wang became the first two Chinese nationals to win a Fields Medal in the same year, marking a milestone for Chinese science. Amy Lyons, known as BlondieinChina, discussed covering Chinese food and culture for a decade.", "body_md": "Alice Han and James Kynge break down Xi Jinping’s pitch at the World AI Conference in Shanghai: free, open-source Chinese AI models for developing nations shut out by expensive U.S. systems. They dig into WAICO, the new 29-member intergovernmental AI organization China just launched, how it echoes (and diverges from) the Belt and Road and Digital Silk Road playbooks, and whether China’s open-source generosity can actually last.\n\nThen: mathematicians Yu Deng and Hong Wang just became the first two Chinese nationals to win a Fields Medal in the same year — only the second and third Chinese nationals ever to win math’s highest honor. Alice and James discuss why it’s being celebrated as a milestone for Chinese science, and what it says about talent flow between China and the West.\n\nPlus: Amy Lyons — known online as [@BlondieinChina](https://www.youtube.com/@BlondieinChina) — joins to talk about a decade of covering Chinese food and culture, what most people get wrong about Chinese cuisine outside Beijing and Shanghai, and how the crea…", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-plan-to-win-over-the-world-with-free-ai-with-amy-lyons", "canonical_source": "https://www.profgmedia.com/p/chinas-plan-to-win-over-the-world", "published_at": "2026-07-28 08:02:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 08:08:01.348883+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Xi Jinping", "World AI Conference", "WAICO", "Yu Deng", "Hong Wang", "Fields Medal", "Amy Lyons", "BlondieinChina"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-plan-to-win-over-the-world-with-free-ai-with-amy-lyons", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-plan-to-win-over-the-world-with-free-ai-with-amy-lyons.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-plan-to-win-over-the-world-with-free-ai-with-amy-lyons.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-s-plan-to-win-over-the-world-with-free-ai-with-amy-lyons.jsonld"}}