https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202503/23/content_WS67dfd013c6d0868f4e8f1146.html
These are the kinds of use cases that China is pursuing for ML/AI outside of the AI hype bubble of frontier models.
They are also doing the frontier models without hype scale waste that is emblematic of the western competition. My understanding of this is to prevent any chance of western AI dominance (quite unlikely honestly), but also to undermine the financial hype bubble as a side bonus.
China has a massive advantage in the numbers of highly educated researchers that can use these tools in materially beneficial ways, and they are openly assisting with development of these tools for BRICS partners in their own contextual uses.
The marxist perspective is highly imbued in the Chinese approach to the development of technology in general, and while they are not directly exporting marxism, they do create material conditions that act as fertile medium for its growth internationally. Making solar, batteries, AI models, chips, etc affordable to the global south has provided a path out of hegemonic dominance that was not available otherwise, and this process continues.
The western conception of AI is really just a false understanding of the technology, and in certain aspects China's pragmatic approach to developing the actual underlying tech without these hype goggles is quite beneficial to its use in liberatory contexts.