The 2024 World Intelligent Industry Expo opened in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Thursday, focusing on cutting-edge fields like artificial intelligence, intelligent connected vehicles, and smart manufacturing.
With the theme of "Intelligence: Extensive Development Space, Sustainable Growth Driver", the expo is jointly hosted by Tianjin and southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, combining the former World Intelligence Congress in Tianjin and the Smart China Expo in Chongqing.
Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the three-day event on the same day.
Covering an exhibition area of 100,000 square meters, the expo features 10 themed exhibition areas showcasing new products, new technologies and new achievements of intelligent technology.
More than 550 enterprises and organizations are participating in the event, with attendees from 49 countries and regions discussing topics related to AI.
Marcus, a German exhibitor, expressed his interest in entering China's vigorously developing low-altitude economy sector.
"This is actually our first time here participating in this exhibition, and it is an honor for us to be here. And we want to participate right now in the very first minute of that new business because China is very, very supportive and helps us a lot in that market as well. That is the reason why we are looking for a Chinese place to find our facility a place, to produce all the equipment and also to the development in China," said Marcus.
The expo will unveil 94 new products, technologies, and achievements, with 48 of them making their debut. Additionally, events and activities like the World Intelligent Driving Challenge and the 2024 International Conference on Smart Sport will be held on the sidelines of the expo.
World Intelligence Expo 2024 opens in Tianjin
World Intelligence Expo 2024 opens in Tianjin
World Intelligence Expo 2024 opens in Tianjin
World Intelligence Expo 2024 opens in Tianjin
The 2025 Global Developer Conference opened in Shanghai on Friday, gathering more than 100 developer communities from around the world to discuss large language model industrialization solutions and promote AI application.
Themed "Shaping Infinite Possibilities Globally", the event will run through Sunday, featuring the debut of multiple open source large language models.
"It not only assists developers in code generation and does it automatically, but also serves as an automatic assistive tool for office workers to handle spreadsheet and text tasks. Additionally, we have also released an open-source AI software toolchain, hoping it can lower the costs of AI production," said Yang Fan, co-founder and president of SenseTime, an AI software company based in Hong Kong.
The current trend in the AI industry is about training lower-cost, better-structured and integrated language models with stronger capabilities for processing text, image and video materials, according to insiders.
In the meantime, more businesses have adopted an open-source strategy to speed up the building of their own developer ecosystems and application ecosystems.
"We're introducing two models to the open-source community. One is an integrated speech generation and comprehension model, which is skillful in understanding emotions and dialects. The other one is a text-to-video generation model. I think it will bring better experiences to content creators in many fields," said Li Jing, vice president of StepFun.
In December 2024, Shanghai announced a comprehensive plan aimed at developing a world-class AI industry ecosystem by 2025. The plan, officially named the Implementation Plan for AI "Molding Shanghai", consists of 22 measures.
Its goals include surpassing 100 Exa Floating Point Operations Per Second (EFLOPS) in computing power, developing approximately 50 industry-specific open corpus demonstration applications, launching three to five innovation accelerators for large models, and establishing several collaborative empowerment centers and vertical zones for model training.
The city had registered 60 large generative AI models as of 2024.
"Last year, the scale of our AI industry reached 450 billion yuan (about 62 billion U.S. dollars), up 7.8 percent. This year, we will focus on application. Shanghai will continue enhancing computing power with a goal of adding 100,000 PetaFLOPs of computing power by the end of the year to improve public computing service platforms," said Pan Yan, director of the AI office of the Shanghai Economy and Information Technology Commission.
2025 Global Developer Conference opens in Shanghai
