This reads like slop, but actually, how does "embedding AI into all infrastructure" play out from the national security standpoint? If code execution is frequently supervised by agents, normal exploits can become very detectable. But agents themselves can be manipulated…

Fable is already salivating

China's new "AI+ Information and Communications Technology" plan is one of the clearest statements yet of Beijing's vision for an AI-native infrastructure stack. This is not primarily a manufacturing policy. It is a roadmap for embedding AI directly into networks, compute infrastructure, telecom operations, devices, and digital services.

The headline target is ambitious: by 2028 China wants information and communications networks to achieve a high degree of autonomous operation, create more than 30 high-value AI application scenarios, and reach internationally advanced levels of intelligent network operations and services.

One of the most important concepts is the emergence of an "Agent Internet" (智能体互联网). MIIT calls for breakthroughs in large-small model collaboration, multi-agent coordination, agent communications, and even indigenous agent communication protocols.

In practical terms, this means telecom operators moving toward networks that can perceive, analyze, decide, and act autonomously across planning, construction, maintenance, optimization, operations, and customer service.

The plan envisions AI embedded directly into communications infrastructure. Base stations, routers, optical transport systems, broadband access equipment, and security gateways are all expected to incorporate intelligent compute and AI capabilities.

The document also highlights technologies increasingly critical to AI infrastructure: 400G and 800G optical transport networks, advanced optical switching, optical-electrical co-packaging, high-speed photonic devices, and intelligent compute interconnects.

Quick take summary: Compute-network integration+ Supernodes + Optical interconnects _+ National compute infrastructure. This is one of the strongest signals in the document about where Chinese infrastructure policy is heading during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. See the Notice here: https://www.miit.gov.cn/zwgk/zcwj/wjfb/tz/art/2026/art_c864f8e08d7a4120bacae79260add934.html

Embodied intelligence appears as well. The document specifically calls for integration between communications networks and embodied AI systems, alongside AI phones, AI PCs, smart home devices, and intelligent wearables.

The broader significance is that Beijing increasingly sees AI competition as an infrastructure challenge. Frontier models remain important, but the long-term objective is to build a nationwide platform where networks, compute, data, models, agents, and applications operate as an integrated intelligent system. End thread.

The document repeatedly emphasizes "network intelligence" (网络智能) and "network agents" (网络智能体). Beijing is no longer treating AI as an application running on networks. The objective is for networks themselves to become intelligent systems.

There is a major edge AI component. The plan calls for inference capabilities deployed at the network edge across 5G-A, optical, IP, and industrial networks, supporting applications in transportation, manufacturing, entertainment, and the low-altitude economy.

Compute-network integration remains a central strategic priority. The document reinforces China's vision of a unified national compute infrastructure linking data centers, regional compute hubs, and edge resources into a coordinated national system. One goal heere is distributed inference: easing the inference load on data centers by spreading inference more evenly across a broader network linked by high speed comms. It touched on this for training here, but inference may prove to be easier to do in a distributed environement. https://pstaidecrypted.substack.com/p/china-ai-update-innovation-across

Particularly notable is the target for metropolitan "1 millisecond compute circles," with at least 75% coverage by 2028. The goal is to make AI compute resources accessible almost as seamlessly as network bandwidth.

@teortaxesTex plays out like flesh and blood natsec I think, with corruption, subversion and misalignment being the choke point

like you need to make sure fable 7 is Your Guy and can't be turned by treats or blackmail

@pstAsiatech My internal plan is as follows

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@pstAsiatech The AI supernode targets + 1ms compute circles are a procurement mandate -- every hyperscaler in China needs Huawei optical interconnects and Cambricon accelerators to hit MIIT 2028 targets. This is the demand signal behind the Kimi/Zhipu/StepFun IPO wave this week.

@pstAsiatech Chinese government is doing what hyperscalers are doing .. creating supernodes by combining multiple data center using optical interconnect. China is trying to compete with US by centralizing their resources.