EPISODE · Aug 3, 2026 · 36 MIN
Can China's Open-Weight Models Help India's AI Sovereignty?
from All Things Policy · host Takshashila Institution
Last month, China hosted the ninth iteration of its World AI Conference in Shanghai. Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the event for the first time in nine years, and teasing out his speech beyond the rhetoric leaves some important takeaways. Meanwhile, companies around the world are turning to open-weight models from China that increasingly deliver near-frontier capability at a fraction of the cost. Join three researchers from the Takshashila Institution - Shobhankita Reddy, Amit Kumar and Bharath Reddy - as they make sense of what all this means for India. Read on - https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/lets-make-china-work-for-us-securely-building-indias-domestic-compute-keeping-good-terms-with-us-pax-silica-anthropic-101784679849823.html and https://eyeonchina.substack.com/p/the-symphony-of-global-ai All Things Policy is a daily podcast on public policy brought to you by the Takshashila Institution, Bengaluru.Find out more on our research and other work here: https://takshashila.org.in/research-areasCheck out our public policy courses here: https://school.takshashila.org.in
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