When Trump or CEOs like Sam Altman advocate for American-led global AI standards, all China probably sees is the US wielding safety discussions as a way to lock in its advantage, he said. Those concerns may even render Bessent’s alert system useless in the long term if China feels that “AI safety” is a code word for suppressing Chinese AI.

China is waging a much different war for AI supremacy than the U.S. Why it matters: China is obsessed with state control and adoption. Chinese officials are laser-focused on deep, widespread AI domestic use they can monitor and steer at every level of their economy.

Following a weekend of meetings with Chinese officials, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled the idea of an AI "notification mechanism" that could lead to a shared vision of the technology between the largest economies in the world.

“The scientific, technical term is BS,” said a second person familiar with the mechanism.

Potato farmers rub shoulders with rows of gleaming new data centres as Trump and Xi meet to discuss AI safety.

The US dominates AI spending and computing power, but China is ahead in research and closing the gap on advanced models.

Experts warn Chinese labs are using "knowledge distillation" and free software to undercut U.S. tech dominance, bypass billions in research, and supercharge cognitive warfare.

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out what it calls China’s most powerful AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia Corp. and underpin a massive expansion of data center capacity in coming years.

Chinese confirmation of the AI discussions came just hours before President Xi Jinping was scheduled to begin talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.