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Yuanyue Dang

China is sending a vice-premier in charge of industrial policies to a high-level artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Paris next week, as a small Chinese firm shakes up the global AI race.
Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing will visit France from Sunday to Wednesday as a special representative of President Xi Jinping to the AI Action Summit, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Friday.
Media reports earlier said US Vice-President J.D. Vance would also attend the two-day summit starting on Monday.
But it is unclear whether Zhang and Vance will meet during the event, which will be attended by delegates from 80 countries.
The summit comes as the US-China AI rivalry intensifies, with Europe not making as much progress.
A chatbot programme from Chinese start-up DeepSeek sent shock waves through the AI sector last month, with a performance that rivalled American tech giant OpenAI’s ChatGPT but at only a fraction of its training costs.


The meteoric rise of DeepSeek has also shown up weak spots in the US tech industry’s rivalry against China, while its open-source style has overhauled the rules of AI development and threatened US dominance in the frontier technology.
US President Donald Trump – who launched a US$500 billion project called Stargate to boost AI infrastructure the day after returning to the White House – has labelled DeepSeek a “wake-up call” for US hi-tech companies, while Republican Senator Josh Hawley has proposed legislation to decouple AI development from China, citing national security concerns.
South Korea, Italy and Australia are among countries that have blocked access to the DeepSeek chatbot, mainly for government employees.
Public interest, trust and governance of AI will be among topics of discussion at next week’s summit in Paris, as the rapid growth of the technology fuels international discussions on how to govern the emerging technology.


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