China’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) technology has caused a continuous response internationally. As one of the most competitive companies in the field of AI, OpenAI’s CEO Altman recently publicly praised DeepSeek for “doing a good job” and “changed his attitude 180 degrees” to express his “hope to cooperate with China”; at the just-concluded Paris AI Action Summit, Mistral, a French startup that also uses an open source model, was highly expected; when the news of Apple and Alibaba’s cooperation in developing localized AI functions came out, the stock prices of both companies soared.
Facts have proved that Chinese AI companies’ “embracing open source” has not only opened up new paths for their own development, but also driven the demand for cross-border cooperation among AI companies and promoted the transformation of the global AI ecosystem to “open source inclusiveness”. DeepSeek distributes the digital dividends of the AI era fairly to every netizen by opening up some model functions for free. This “decentralized” open source strategy is in sharp contrast to the closed ecology, high resource threshold and monopoly of a few players in the past Western AI technology, and is in line with the process of global technological democratization. Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Anderson wrote on the social platform X: As open source software, DeepSeek-R1 is “a meaningful gift to the world.”
In recent years, China has vigorously built a number of national AI open innovation platforms, providing open access and sharing computing resources. It can be said that the success of the “open source” big model is rooted in the deep soil of “open source”. We see that the technological development of AI follows the spiral path of “open source-innovation-iteration”, and global science and technology and economic development are also following the logic of “open source”. Today, from DeepSeek’s open source ecology to Baidu’s Apollo autonomous driving open platform, from cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the pharmaceutical industry to collaborative innovation of multinational companies, these practices jointly interpret a fact: the future of AI belongs to openness and sharing, and open source and inclusiveness can completely become a template for win-win cooperation in the world’s AI field, empowering and promoting global sustainable development in the era of intelligence.
Australia’s “Dialogue” website published an article on the 12th, saying that Chinese companies’ embrace of AI open source “will profoundly reshape the pattern of AI development”, and the keywords for China’s AI rise, in addition to “fast” and “collaboration”, are “market-driven”. Thanks to China’s strong industrial chain support, the speed of AI technology landing in China is amazing. This can be seen from the “access wave” that DeepSeek has set off in China recently: more than a dozen local cloud AI chip manufacturers have announced the adaptation or listing of DeepSeek model services, several cloud computing giants have announced support for DeepSeek, and industries such as telecommunications, automobiles, securities, and education have connected to DeepSeek. This means that AI will play a “leading goose effect” in promoting the development of new quality productivity, becoming a catalyst for promoting China’s broader innovation and overall economic quality upgrade, and will also create more new opportunities and possibilities for cross-border cooperation.
At the AI Action Summit in Paris, more than 60 signatories, including China, jointly issued the outcome document “Statement on the Development of Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity and the Planet”, and only representatives from the United States and the United Kingdom did not sign. This shows that the self-centered and exclusive AI hegemony development logic has little market in the international community, and the open, inclusive, inclusive and equal AI governance concept advocated by China is recognized and accepted by the vast majority of members of the world.
If we develop behind closed doors, we will lose the environment of communication and competition. No matter how high the computing power is, it is likely to be replaced by a completely new path. Only through open collaboration can we solve global issues such as computing power allocation and ethical standards. Trying to maintain the competitive advantage in the AI era by digging the experience of “moat” is nothing but a pipe dream, not to mention opening the “Stargate”. Moreover, “closing the door” to China now means losing the opportunity to learn from advanced technology. Some media have warned that the potential of American companies to further utilize China’s open source technology may be restricted by their own political barriers.
At present, the development of global AI is at a crossroads. Should we continue to rely on computing power hegemony to build a high wall of technology, or achieve common prosperity through inclusive cooperation? The answer given by China is to promote innovation through open source and seek development through inclusiveness. When China integrates into the global technology network with a humble and open attitude, the world will also be more dynamic due to the intersection of diverse forces. The future of AI development may be defined by “competitive symbiosis”. The dawn of technological equality is beginning to emerge, and China looks forward to working with the world to create a more inclusive intelligent era.
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