Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to outline a broader vision for China’s role in global artificial intelligence governance at the annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, where Huawei will showcase its Atlas 950 SuperPoD large-scale AI computing system during the 17-20 July event. Xi’s first appearance at the forum underscores Beijing’s view of AI as both a driver of economic growth and a strategic technology in its competition with the United States. Huawei’s system connects thousands of Huawei Ascend AI processors through high-speed links to operate as a single computing cluster. Reuters reported that DeepSeek’s latest V4 model has been adapted to run entirely on clusters built with Huawei Ascend chips, while Chinese media said Biren and MetaX would also release new “supernode” computing clusters. The gathering comes as Washington and Beijing prepare for their first government-level AI talks under U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. Beijing is also expected to promote Chinese open-source AI models as a lower-cost alternative to Western systems. International participants are expected to include United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnivakul.