According to five people familiar with the matter, Reuters in the UK reports that China and the United States are planning to hold talks on artificial intelligence (AI) issues in September this year.
According to reports, this AI meeting is an important achievement of US President Trump's visit to China in May this year, but the exact date has not yet been determined.
Three people familiar with the matter revealed that the United States is expected to have the Treasury Secretary Beisenet leading the effort. As for the lists of other participants from the United States and China, the location of the talks, and the specific agenda, these are still under discussion, and the related preparations are still in the initial stage.
Reuters pointed out that as the capabilities of AI models developed by China and the US continue to improve, both countries hope to discuss the governance and regulation of related risks.
On July 20th, the American news website Axios reported that some people within the Trump administration had previously attempted to impose de facto bans on foreign open-source models. This idea reached its peak after Chinese tech companies released the world’s first open-source model, Kimi K3, which has 2.8 trillion parameters. The U.S. government is now considering banning Chinese AI models.
Bloomberg and other US media pointed out that the rise of the Kimi K3 means that the gap between China's AI and the most advanced American models may have narrowed to a matter of months.
On the 20th, renowned American AI scholar Gary Marcus also wrote in his personal blog that Chinese AI models have ‘almost caught up’ with the most advanced levels in the United States. It is impossible for the United States to ‘win’ this AI competition. Washington should stop viewing AI as a zero-sum game and instead explore paths of international cooperation and public goods.
