China calls for stronger intl cooperation on AI

China called for further strengthening of international cooperation in artificial intelligence capacity building on Tuesday at the United Nations, as rapid advances in AI expose global capability gaps.

Speaking at a meeting on "AI Empowering Engineering Capacity-Building" at the UN headquarters in New York, Chen Jiachang, China's vice-minister of science and technology, said that China is promoting global AI governance within the UN framework and advancing international cooperation through initiatives such as an AI capacity-building resolution adopted by consensus at the UN General Assembly.

He said that China is pursuing an open-source, innovation-driven approach to AI and aims to foster a more inclusive global innovation ecosystem. Chen noted that China has become the leading source of AI patents worldwide, contributing about 60 percent of the total. He added that industry-led open-source AI communities in China have developed more than 170,000 multimodal models and now support over 20 million developers worldwide.