Xi Pitches Open-Source AI Bloc at BRICS as China and Russia Reportedly Turn to Claude
China's president proposed a US-rivaling open-source AI community at the BRICS summit even as reports surfaced of China and Russia allegedly using Anthropic's Claude for military purposes — turning AI into an explicit front in geopolitical competition.
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to pitch an AI vision built around an open-source community explicitly designed "to rival US," as reported by @DreyXAI. The framing is deliberate. Rather than competing lab-for-lab against American frontier models, the proposal positions open weights and shared infrastructure as the terrain where a coalition of non-US nations can build independently of American platforms and export controls.
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