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China AI policy

Beijing's state-led approach to AI development, covering industrial policy, risk governance, and global initiatives such as BRICS open-source AI.

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buildConfirmed4 publishers

China's draft export catalog covers 23 AI technology areas and auto-licenses open-weight releases

China's commerce and science ministries drafted export controls on 23 AI technology areas, with model limits from 2 trillion parameters or 10^26 FLOPs. A top-10 global rank also counts, open-weight releases clear on registration, and public technology is exempt.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 36%
Operator
Operator 35%
Investor
Investor 29%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence66
securityOne report1 publisher

Z.ai switches off the ZCode indexing default that copied repositories to Alibaba Cloud

ZCode's Codebase Indexing shipped enabled and developers found their Git repositories on Alibaba Cloud. Z.ai patched it and cited an outside assessment saying the uploads are deleted; verifying that is out of the affected users' hands.

Publishers:currently.att.yahoo.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption35
Hype gap+22
Incentives72
Confidence48
leadershipOne report1 publisher

China's state security minister puts regime security first on Beijing's list of six AI risks

Chen Yixin's article in the internet regulator's own journal ranks political rumors and cognitive warfare ahead of infrastructure and data as AI dangers. It also asks Beijing to build a risk prevention and control system faster.

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives75
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Xi puts China in charge of building a BRICS open-source AI community

Xi used the summit's closing session to make China the lead builder of an open-source AI ecosystem for BRICS members, and Beijing says it has already partnered with around 30 countries on a separate World AI Cooperation Organisation.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+45
Incentives80
Confidence40
productOne report1 publisher

A Shenzhen architect's second shift teaches AI to write her building proposals

Falling infrastructure work halved her income, so she logs into TalentsAI after hours and documents her own reasoning for a model that may one day do the job. Tasks pay 100 to 500 yuan, when they pass review.

Publishers:restofworld.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption58
Hype gap+10
Incentives68
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

China's AI displacement is showing up in rate cards, not just layoff notices

A Beijing coder and 160 colleagues gone two weeks after a manager's question, translation pay halved, enterprise AI use at 47.5%. The labour repricing there has no political brake on it.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption63
Hype gap+14
Incentives46
Confidence55