July 28, 2025
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PYMNTS
China calls for a global AI cooperation framework to share innovations and regulate AI risks, emphasizing inclusion of developing nations.
China Proposes Global AI Cooperation Organization to Promote Inclusive Innovation and Governance
China has proposed the creation of an international organization aimed at fostering global cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI). The initiative seeks to guide worldwide efforts in regulating AI technologies and sharing China’s own AI innovations. Premier Li Qiang announced the proposal during the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai on July 26, 2025. According to Reuters, Li emphasized the need for broad collaboration to avoid AI becoming an "exclusive game" controlled by a few countries and companies. Li highlighted the importance of sharing AI advancements with all countries, particularly focusing on the "Global South," which refers to developing and lower-income economies primarily in the Southern Hemisphere. He also pointed to challenges such as insufficient AI chip supply and restrictions on talent exchange that hinder global AI progress."Overall global AI governance is still fragmented. Countries have great differences particularly in terms of areas such as regulatory concepts, institutional rules," Li said. "We should strengthen coordination to form a global AI governance framework that has broad consensus as soon as possible."The announcement follows shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled an AI blueprint aimed at expanding American AI exports to allied nations, a move designed to maintain the U.S.'s competitive edge against China in the AI race. In related AI developments, a recent report from Gartner revealed that despite a flood of vendors marketing AI agents, only a small fraction—about 130 out of thousands—are truly agentic. Agentic AI systems possess autonomy to plan, reason, and act toward goals with minimal human input. Many vendors engage in "agent washing," rebranding simpler AI tools such as assistants, robotic process automation (RPA), and chatbots as agentic AI without substantial capabilities. Vendor selection remains critical for organizations deploying generative AI. A PYMNTS Intelligence report from May 2024 noted that 25% of CFOs viewed reliance on vendors as a drawback. While comfort with generative AI has increased over the past year, CFOs remain cautious about whether agentic AI is fully "battle-ready." –- Source: Originally published at PYMNTS on July 27, 2025.