# China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race

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Podcast: [Marketplace Tech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132)
Published: 2026-08-04T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/08/04/china-open-weighted-ai-soft-power
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## Resource

Last month, President Xi Jinping spoke at an AI conference in Shanghai, China. There he promoted AI accessibility for the world, touting China’s adoption of open-weighted models. After OpenAI’s rogue model incident in which a training model hacked into the company HuggingFace and stole confidential information, the discussion over whether models should be open or closed has intensified. “Marketplace Tech” host Meghan McCarty Carion spoke with Adam Segal at the Council of Foreign Relations about China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race.

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