China’s AI ecosystem is not as open as it claims. Nor is any other country’s | Letters

Responding to an article by China’s ambassador to the UK, Prof Paul H Cleverley advocates shared openness standards, while Dr Claire Jenkins says British AI can offer a distinctive path Ambassador Zheng Zeguang rightly celebrates openly released AI models, and the Chinese labs behind Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi have led the way – competition that benefits everyone, especially where models can run on modest hardware in the developing world ( The future of AI hinges on openness and cooperation. China and Britain can gain much by working together, 30 July ). But his claim that openness is a defining