Analysis: The best and worst of the internet are closer than they look
Visitors enjoy the "Light of Internet Expo" at the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, east China's Zhejiang Province, November 4, 2026. /VCG The internet's best case and worst case are not separated by a generation or a continent. They are separated by a connection, an investment or a safety guardrail – often by a single missing condition. At this year's World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, the best case was concrete. Alibaba's Joseph Tsai argued that only open source can make AI inclusive, citing a Ugandan nonprofit that used the company's Qwen model to cover 68 African languages.
