Industry experts resonate with Chinese premier's call for global AI cooperation

Industry experts strongly resonated with Chinese Premier Li Qiang's call for global cooperation on AI development and governance at the 2025 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, emphasizing the critical importance of information and data sharing.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the event in Shanghai on Saturday, Li said the international community should place greater emphasis on the joint governance of artificial intelligence (AI), calling for the early formation of a global framework and rules that have broad consensus to guide the development and use of AI.

Li urged more efforts to ensure universal access to AI so that more countries and groups will benefit from it. He also suggested greater cooperation on innovation to achieve more groundbreaking results.

In line with this spirit, Shanghai's Fudan University launched an open platform called NovaInspire on the same day, providing scientific data and open-source models to researchers worldwide.

"Where is the scientific data? It is in the hands of scientists and research institutions. If we do not promote openness in science, data, models, and personnel, which facilitate global cooperation and connectivity to address the scientific challenges faced by all humanity, scientific intelligence will never be achieved," said Wu Libo, assistant to the president of Fudan University.

"We read the papers. In fact, quite a lot of papers actually come from my colleagues in China. And obviously, we share these information. In terms of data, we tend to open source our work and our algorithms, so everybody can benefit from each other," said Wang Jun, professor with University College London.

More than 1,000 officials and representatives of industries, universities and research institutes from China and abroad attended the opening ceremony.

The death toll in the war-torn Gaza Strip has risen to 71,455 since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on Oct 7, 2023, with the number of injuries reaching 171,347, Gaza's health authorities said on Friday.

In the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza received 14 more bodies, including 12 new deaths and two bodies recovered from the rubble, in addition to 18 new injuries as of 11:00 on Friday, the authorities said.

Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on Oct 11, 2025, Israeli attacks have killed 463 people and wounded 1,269 others, according to the Gaza health authorities.