Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order

So this year's World AI Conference is bigger than ever because President Xi Jinping has attended for the first time delivering a keynote speech at today's opening ceremony where he presented a vision of a new world order led by China without the U.S., where China marshals a coalition of global South countries with which it can export and share its open source AI models and provide AI training and capacity building, basically providing AIs what he calls a global instead of implementing export controls and proprietary closed source models like from open AI and anthropic. Xi is not only presenting a vision of China's global leadership over AI technology but also China's leadership in terms of standards, governance and the norms in which everyone uses AI as an emerging technology. So this year's WIC, Huawei will be publicly displaying its Atlas 950 SuperPod competing cluster for the first time. So this is essentially what is called a super node where thousands of domestically made AI chips are kind of assembled and packaged together where they can run very very large AI inference and possibly training workloads as well. So this year a lot of the major Chinese AI labs will be relying on Huawei to produce more of these super node clusters for them to run their training and inference for their newest models and this demonstrates that China's domestic semiconductor industry is fast catching up to the U.S. and that China can bypass U.S. sanctions and export controls on advanced NVIDIA semiconductor chips.