Tim Rühlig spoke to Table.Briefings about China’s position in the AI race with the US and the leverage this gives Beijing. While China still lags at the technological frontier, it is on par or ahead in adoption across business and society, accelerated by the openness of Chinese AI models, he explained.

"The weights are freely available, while training data are practically never disclosed and code only partially. Anyone can use them or build products on top of them. They are attractive because they are open, powerful and virtually free," he remarked.