Trump and Xi hold White House talks, but AI cooperation prospects remain limited

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks in the Oval Office at the White House, in a meeting that included a personal tour of the grounds offered by the American leader to his visiting counterpart.

During the visit, Trump showed Xi several features of the White House that he has personally overseen, including a tour aboard the Marine One helicopter. He also presented a newly built granite landing pad for the helicopter and pointed out an adjacent construction site where a ballroom is planned.

Limited hopes on AI cooperation

Despite the high-profile nature of the meeting between the two leaders, expectations for concrete cooperation between Washington and Beijing on artificial intelligence remained slim. The two countries have increasingly treated AI development as an area of strategic competition rather than collaboration in recent years.

The meeting comes amid a broader relationship between the US and China that has been marked by both diplomatic engagement and continued rivalry across trade, technology and security issues.

No further details were immediately available on any formal agreements or joint statements to emerge from the Oval Office discussions between the two presidents.