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China Gave Away Its Best AI for Free. Nobody Read the Fine Print.

From 11% to nearly 50% of enterprise AI in four months. This is what a geopolitical shift looks like when it happens in silence.

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Novy Baf
Aug 17, 2026
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Source: The Next Web

On July 17, Xi Jinping took the stage in Shanghai facing representatives from 29 countries. It was his first in-person appearance at the World AI Conference since the event began in 2018. The UN Secretary General had flown in for the occasion. What Xi said, stripped of diplomatic language, was simple: China is going all-in on AI, it’…

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