Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing nations and took a pointed jab at U.S. chip export restrictions during his keynote at Shanghai’s World AI Conference, hours after Google released Gemini 3.5 Pro in a scheduling coincidence that put the two countries’ competing AI visions on display within hours of each other. WHAT HAPPENED Google DeepMind confirmed the release of Gemini 3.5 Pro on Friday, bringing a 2-million-token context window that lets developers feed entire books, codebases or research papers into a single request, along with a “Deep Think” reasoning mode available on the $250-per-month Ultra…
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