On July 16 in Shanghai, representatives of 29 countries signed the founding
agreement for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization; UN
Secretary‑General Guterres and other national and international officials
attended. Organizers framed the initiative as an alternative to a concentrated,
closed‑source technology order—characterized by closed models, charged APIs,
constrained compute and locked ecosystems—and said China seeks to explore a
multilateral, open‑source, full‑factor approach to building the AI ecosystem.
