Musk calls for cooperation between US, China AI labs
A sweeping AI deal during US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s meeting next week appears unlikely, experts said.
In a recent interview, Elon Musk proposed a cooperative framework between US and Chinese AI labs ahead of an anticipated meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The suggestion, echoed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, was that the countries' leading firms could assess each other's models before release. However, the article notes that US-China relations are strained due to a lack of mutual trust, with Beijing's former US envoy stating that China is unlikely to take American calls for restraint seriously until Washington regulates its own technology.
The article also references a DeepSeek engineer who likened US "pacing" calls to Nazi Germany acquiring atomic weapons before the Allies, suggesting that such rhetoric could be viewed as calculated to constrain China.
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