China's Plan to Win Over the World with Free AI — with Amy Lyons

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.

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. Then: 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. Plus: 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…