HONG KONG :Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the global rise of artificial intelligence with Bill Gates on Friday and said he welcomed U.S. firms including Microsoft bringing their AI tech to China, two sources familiar with the talks said.Xi also discussed Microsoft's business development in China durin
HONG KONG :Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the global rise of artificial intelligence with Bill Gates on Friday and said he welcomed U.S. firms including Microsoft bringing their AI tech to China, two sources familiar with the talks said.
The comments on AI made at the meeting between Xi and Gates were not disclosed in reports of the meeting published by Chinese state media or in a Friday post by Gates reflecting on his China trip.China's State Council Information Office, which handles media queries on behalf of the Chinese government, and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The U.S. has enacted a series of export controls aimed at restricting China's AI development, while China has unnerved the foreign business community with a crackdown on consultancies and a ban on some sales in China by U.S. chipmaker Micron. Microsoft has been in China for more than 30 years and has a large research centre there. Its Bing portal is the only foreign search engine accessible from within China's so-called Great Firewall, although its search results on sensitive topics are censored.
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