A stellar cast of more than 1,200 guests from upwards of 30 countries and regions gathered for the opening of the 2025 World AI Conference & High-level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai on Saturday. Among the guests were 12 winners of prestigious international honors, including the Turing Award and the Nobel Prize.

Tech firms huge and small will converge in Shanghai this weekend to showcase their artificial intelligence innovations and support China's booming AI sector as it faces U.S. sanctions.

China's Premier Li Qiang warned Saturday that artificial intelligence development must be weighed against the security risks, saying global consensus was urgently needed even as the tech race

China proposes establishing a world artificial intelligence cooperation organisation, Premier Li Qiang said on Saturday, calling on countries to coordinate development and security. Li said in his opening speech at the World AI Conference in Shanghai that AI governance is fragmented and that it is important to step up coordination to form a globally recognised framework for AI.

HANNA DOHMEN is a Senior Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

The Nvidia chief’s praise for Chinese companies suggests a recognition of their growing influence in the global AI ecosystem. Open-source approaches to AI development allow for wider access to foundational models and accelerate innovation by enabling developers worldwide to build upon existing frameworks.

More than half of US and EU respondents, however, say they will only use models hosted on non-Chinese infrastructure.

Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories have developed a neural network method for classifying large-scale celestial objects, revolutionizing astronomical studies.

Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released on late Friday night its Kimi K2 model, touting performance that rivals many U.S. models.

China will spearhead the creation of an international organization to jointly develop AI, the country’s premier told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday.