India, Sept. 14 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday proposed a Brics open-source artificial intelligence community, offering the grouping a Beijing-led alternative to the closed-model ecosystems built by American firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

The proposal was one of five trade and technology initiatives Xi unveiled at the outreach session of the Brics Summit, and it follows Beijing's creation of the World AI Cooperation Organisation, a grouping of about 30 countries working towards lower-cost alternatives to US-controlled AI infrastructure.

"China will be a pioneer in establishing a Brics AI open source community," Xi said, adding that Beijing would "build an open ecosystem for AI" and support cooperation on developing and a...