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The Surge of the Huangpu River, AI Ablaze — The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Opens with Great EnthusiasmIn July, Shanghai's heat rises alongside the fervor for AI. Along the banks of the Huangpu River, crowds surge through the "three venues, four halls" — the World Expo Exhibition Center, Zhangjiang Science Hall, and West Bund Art Center. AI practitioners, researchers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts from around the globe gather here to witness the annual premier event in artificial intelligence. On July 17, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance (WAIC) officially kicked off. Co-hosted by ten national ministries including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, this international grand event carries the theme "Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future," transforming Shanghai into the place with the highest "AI concentration" on Earth. Over four days, hundreds of forums, exhibitions spanning over 100,000 square meters, more than 1,000 participating enterprises, and over 300 new product debuts allow every attendee to truly feel: artificial intelligence is no longer distant science fiction, but a blazing reality integrating into life and production. Unprecedented: The Nation's Top Leader Attends in Person, Global Eyes Focus on Shanghai This year's WAIC was destined for the history books from its opening moments. President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech titled "Working Together to Build a Fair and Reasonable Global AI Governance System." This marks the first time since WAIC's founding in 2018 that the country's highest leader has attended in person, fully demonstrating China's high regard for AI development and global governance. In his speech, President Xi profoundly pointed out that artificial intelligence is a new frontier in human development, bringing significant opportunities while also carrying risks and challenges that cannot be ignored. The international community should uphold the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, promoting AI development that is beneficial, inclusive, and accessible to all. International dignitaries including Kazakhstan President Tokayev, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Thai Prime Minister Anutin, and UN Secretary-General Guterres attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches respectively. Multiple foreign leaders highly praised China's positive contributions to global AI governance and looked forward to deepening technological exchanges and regulatory coordination with China. On the eve of the conference, the signing ceremony for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization Agreement was grandly held in Shanghai, marking a substantive step forward in multilateral cooperation for global AI governance and laying an institutional foundation for subsequent rule-making and project collaboration. President Xi announced a series of landmark initiatives in his speech: the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization was formally established in Shanghai and will serve as a permanent institution to promote regular dialogue on global AI governance issues; over the next five years, 5,000 specialized AI training slots will be opened to developing countries worldwide to help more nations cultivate local AI talent; International AI Application Cooperation Centers will be established in batches across six major regions — ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the SCO, and BRICS — to promote technology sharing and scenario co-construction; and the intelligent meteorological early warning system "Mazu" will be deployed in 30 countries to enhance the ability of Global South nations to respond to extreme climate conditions. These initiatives move from technological exchange toward institutional cooperation, providing a practical "China Solution" for global AI governance that resonated widely among delegates from all countries. Global Top Minds Converge: 9 Nobel and Turing Laureates on the Same Stage If one word could summarize this year's WAIC academic lineup, "top-tier" would not be an exaggeration. The conference has preliminarily confirmed the participation of 9 Turing Award and Nobel laureates, constituting an "All-Star" lineup in the field of artificial intelligence. Richard Sutton, hailed as the "father of reinforcement learning," delivered a keynote speech at the opening main forum, sharing his profound reflections on AI's evolution from perception and decision-making toward autonomous learning. He pointed out that future AI will possess stronger environmental adaptability and continuous evolutionary capabilities. Yoshua Bengio, one of the "three giants of deep learning," promoted the UN's AI governance work framework on-site, emphasizing that AI safety and ethics must be placed at the core of technological development. Scholars including 2025 Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard and 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Omar M. Yaghi conducted in-depth discussions around the new paradigm of "AI for Science," exploring how AI can accelerate the research and development of new materials and new drugs. Kevin Kelly, acclaimed as the "father of the Silicon Valley spirit," also attended as a special guest. In his speech, he said with passion: "The current development of AI and embodied intelligence is truly astonishing. What a magnificent time to be alive." The conference launched the high-level international academic conference "WAIC Academic" for the first time, with Turing Award winner Andrew Yao serving as conference chair and academicians from both Chinese academies leading the academic committee. The inaugural conference received 284 submissions from 12 countries and the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions, with an acceptance rate of approximately 20.21%, falling within the conventional strict range of international top-tier conferences. This means Shanghai is building a truly world-class AI academic home field for China, providing a top-tier exchange platform for young scholars globally. The conference also organized over 140 forums of various types, linking 12 national ministries, 8 national key laboratories, and more than 10 international organizations, gathering over 1,400 Chinese and foreign guests, covering the full chain of topics from basic theory and technical frameworks to industrial applications and ethical governance. From world-leading scholars to industry leaders, from policymakers to investment institutions, Shanghai became the core window for observing global AI frontier trends in July. Ten "Hall-of-Fame Treasures": Hardcore Technology at Full Power At the exhibition, the most eye-catching feature was undoubtedly the conference's ten "Hall-of-Fame Treasures." This is the highest official honor of the conference's exhibition segment, rigorously selected from thousands of participating achievements, with each representing a cutting-edge breakthrough in a specific direction. In the computing power domain, Huawei's Ascend 950 SuperNode (Atlas 950 SuperPoD) made its first public appearance in physical form, becoming the undisputed "computing power beast" of the exhibition area. Based on the Lingqu interconnect protocol, it achieves the industry's largest scale of 1,024 cards, providing 1 EFLOPS FP8 and 2 EFLOPS FP4 of surging computing power, capable of supporting trillion-parameter-level large model training. This breakthrough product won the conference's highest honor, the SAIL Award, demonstrating China's independent innovation capability in AI infrastructure. Sugon's "Sugon 8000 (Dengfeng)" followed closely — it is China's first fully domestic 100,000-card AI supercluster, achieving complete localization from chips to communication to software stacks, marking the transition of domestic computing power from "usable" to "truly usable." Alibaba Cloud's Zhenwu M890 × Panjiu AL128 supernode and ZTE's OEX supernode were also both shortlisted, together forming the "national team" formation of the computing power foundation. The chip domain was equally brilliant. Shanghai Dongfang Suanxin globally debuted the world's first software-defined near-memory computing 3D chip, the DF1000. By compressing interconnect spacing to the sub-micron level, it dramatically reduces data movement power consumption while achieving a domestic supply chain closed loop from design to packaging and testing, providing a new high-performance, low-power option for edge-side AI applications. In the embodied intelligence domain, Zhiyuan Expedition A3 Ultra became the only embodied intelligent robot product among the "Hall-of-Fame Treasures." This is the world's first mass-producible, commercially deployable full-size humanoid robot, featuring a 174 cm human-adapted body that can naturally integrate into human workspaces, showing tremendous potential in industrial manufacturing, logistics distribution, home services, and other scenarios. Additionally, iFlytek AI Glasses were selected for their pioneering lip-movement recognition multimodal noise reduction solution, enabling accurate voice command capture even in noisy environments; Ant Group's Lingbo cross-embodiment foundation model powered an intelligent robot pharmacy, achieving full-process intelligence for automatic drug sorting, delivery, and management; the large-model-native intelligent agent phone STEPX Neo deeply integrated AI agents into the operating system, redefining human-computer interaction on mobile terminals; and Baidu Dazi General Intelligent Agent, oriented toward daily companionship and services, provides an emotional, personalized AI assistant experience. These ten hardcore works span computing power foundations, robotics, intelligent terminals, power and energy, biotechnology, and other frontier fields, each leaving exhibition visitors in awe. From "Showcasing Skills" to "Getting to Work": AI Dives into Real Scenarios The strongest signal from this year's WAIC is this: AI has finally moved from on-screen demonstrations into real production and life scenarios. The total exhibition area exceeded 100,000 square meters for the first time, with over 1,100 enterprises participating, more than 3,000 exhibits on display, and over 300 products making their global debut — all record-breaking in scale. The two core tracks of intelligent computing and embodied intelligence each gathered over 200 enterprises, forming a complete upstream-to-downstream industry chain display. The computing power exhibition area no longer competes on single-card parameters but showcases system-level cluster capabilities — from AI chips, high-speed interconnects, distributed storage to model scheduling platforms, full-stack solutions have become the focus of enterprise competition. The embodied intelligence exhibition area has moved even further from "showcase performances" to "factory floor work": 208 humanoid terminals and over 300 physical robots are on concentrated display, a spectacular sight. Real automotive production lines were moved into the exhibition hall, where robotic arms collaboratively complete complex processes such as welding, assembly, and spraying under unmanned conditions. Visitors can observe up close how robots enter factories and participate in automotive battery and motor manufacturing. At the StepFun exhibition, 6 robots, 81,920 building blocks, and 15 continuous hours of work built an AI "physical labor" demonstration, showcasing robotic swarm collaboration and precise control capabilities. Tencent released an embodied intelligence foundation model, systematically connecting the "perception-body-action" loop for the first time, enabling robots to autonomously adjust their behavior in dynamic environments like humans. Magic Atom released three new robot products, covering commercial services, industrial inspection, and home companionship scenarios. MiniMax's M3 multimodal large model, StepFun's Agent operating system, and the world's first AI intelligent agent phone were among the heavyweight new products that made their debut, allowing visitors to personally experience the real changes as large models move from the cloud to the edge, from dialogue to execution. A New Chapter in Global Governance: From Shanghai, Dialogue with the World The theme "Intelligent Partners, Co-creating the Future" carries two layers of meaning: on one hand, AI is empowering thousands of industries and entering millions of households, becoming an important helper in work and life; on the other hand, global AI governance requires countries to join hands in building global partnerships to jointly address the challenges brought by technology. At the "AI Global Governance and Sustainable Development" forum, the Global AI Innovation Governance Center released a batch of latest research results, including the ethical review intelligent agent system "Yijian" 2.0, the "Global AI Governance Index (2026) — Global South Perspective and Capacity Building," and others. The Global AI Governance Index covers 40 representative economies globally, introducing the Global South perspective into AI governance assessment for the first time, focusing not only on technical norms in developed countries but also on the practical needs of developing countries in resource access, data sovereignty, and capacity building. At the forum, experts from Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America shared their respective regions' AI practices and challenges, unanimously calling for the establishment of a fairer, more inclusive governance framework. At the industrial implementation level, the conference has promoted the landing of 57 core scenarios, with cumulative intended cooperation reaching 162 billion yuan, covering intelligent manufacturing, smart healthcare, smart cities, fintech, and other fields. The conference launched five major ecological matrices — "Venture Capital, Linkage, Knowledge, Youth Innovation, and Going Global" — established a capital docking zone, linking more than ten investment institutions and 200 professional investors to provide efficient resource docking platforms for startups and mature projects. For the first time, an OPC (One-Person AI Tech Startup) exclusive exhibition area was established, with 180 enterprises participating, showcasing the new trend of individual entrepreneurship and lightweight innovation in the AI era. Numerous overseas purchasers and partners signed multiple cross-border cooperation agreements during the conference, making WAIC not only a stage for technology display but also a hub for global AI industry cooperation. Eight Years of Deep Cultivation, Shanghai's AI Industry Accelerates WAIC has been held in Shanghai for eight consecutive years, with over 8,000 top AI experts and industry leaders participating and speaking. Growing alongside the conference is Shanghai's thriving AI industry ecosystem. The latest data shows that in 2025, Shanghai's 394 regulated AI enterprises achieved an industry scale exceeding 637 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 39.5%, maintaining high-speed growth for multiple consecutive years. The city's AI talent pool approaches 300,000 people, accounting for approximately one-third of the national total, forming a full-chain talent echelon from basic research and technology development to engineering applications. The city's intelligent computing power scale has exceeded 160,000 P, with 169 large models passing regulatory filing, covering numerous vertical industries including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, law, and education. Shanghai has established the "Model Power Community" and "Model Speed Space" large model industry clusters in the east and west respectively, attracting a large number of leading enterprises and unicorn companies to settle in, forming a favorable closed-loop innovation ecosystem. AI has become a core new driving force for Shanghai's and even China's economic growth, also providing a "Shanghai Sample" for global AI industry development. The Huangpu River surges, AI fills the city. From July 17 to 20, Shanghai is using this blazing artificial intelligence grand event to show the world how a "young endeavor" moves from technology to industry, from laboratories into millions of households. From the weighty declarations of national leaders to the collision of ideas among global top scholars, from the stunning debuts of hardcore technology to the rooting of real scenarios, the 2026 WAIC is not only a technological feast but also a collective imagination and joint action about the future. As Kevin Kelly said, we live in a magnificent time, standing at the starting point of a brand-new era. When the wave of artificial intelligence intertwines with human wisdom, Shanghai, with an open, inclusive, and innovative posture, is joining hands with global partners to jointly write the magnificent chapter of the intelligent age. Declaration: This article is originally created by Shenzhen Cloud Engine - a cost-effective AI computing power service platform. For reprint, please indicate the source link:https://www.omniyq.com/en/sys-nd/636.html
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