In AI Pitch, Alibaba Chairman Urges Europe to Look Beyond U.S. Tech

(Paris) — European companies should diversify their artificial intelligence (AI) technology suppliers so they are not too dependent on U.S. platforms, Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said, in an argument in favor of open-source Chinese models.

When asked at the VivaTech conference in Paris on Thursday whether Europe could trust China not to one day cut off access to its technology, Tsai responded that “you can’t.”