Source: Hindustan Times | Original Published At: 2026-09-14 07:17:48 UTC
Key Points
- Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed establishing a BRICS open-source artificial intelligence community at the outreach session of the BRICS Summit.
- Xi said China would be a pioneer in the initiative, build an open ecosystem for AI, and support cooperation on developing and applying large language models.
- The proposal was presented as part of five trade and technology initiatives and follows Beijing's creation of the World AI Cooperation Organisation.
- India has not yet publicly responded to the BRICS AI open-source community proposal.
- The article compares the BRICS initiative with India and France's third-way AI framework announced at the Delhi AI Impact Summit.
- It notes that Xi's proposal includes pooled compute, shared foundation models, joint training courses and research collaboration across BRICS members.