Overview of Competitions and Awards | Hi! WAIC Takes You to Explore the Global AI Arena: A Comprehensive View of Talent Incubation in WAIC's Competition and Award Matrix

WAIC 2025

World Artificial Intelligence Conference

Forum: July 26 - 28, 2025

Exhibition: July 26 - 29, 2025

Venue: Expo Center, Expo Exhibition Hall, Xuhui West Bund, etc.

On the stage where artificial intelligence writes infinite possibilities, the WAIC Awards Matrix is waiting to be finally announced. Hi! WAIC, the "intelligent curator", has already sorted out the exploration path for the awards section for you. If you want to witness the hardcore strength of technology implementation, the global competition of the SAIL Award will showcase the breakthroughs of AI in benefiting human well - being; if you want to catch the sparkle of youth wisdom, the Outstanding Paper Award hides the sparks of basic research and innovation; if you focus on the industrial value of algorithm practice, the BPAA Competition is performing the closed - loop from technology to business; if you look forward to the growth of future forces, the Youth Competitions are full of budding creativity.

This is the multi - dimensional picture of the Awards Matrix: ignite innovation through competition and cultivate talents on the stage. Next, Hi! WAIC will take you deep into this encounter between AI and youth.

Superior Artificial Intelligence Leader Award (SAIL)

The "hardcore arena" for technology implementation

Background:

SAIL Award: As a globally high - profile AI award, adhering to the concept of "Pursuing Excellence, Leading the Future", it focuses on global leading AI projects that benefit human well - being, encourages technological breakthroughs and innovation, and leads the intelligent revolution.

This year, there are a total of 240 valid application projects, a 30% increase compared to last year. Big names at home and abroad have come to "compete".

Features:

Among the application projects for the SAIL Award, 17% are from overseas. International enterprises such as Imperial College London, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Unilever, and Siemens have participated with their projects. The number of applications from central and state - owned enterprises exceeds 60. Each track focuses on practical needs, with prominent highlights in the open - source of large models and vertical - field applications, computing power chips, intelligent computing clusters, AI Agents, embodied intelligence, and industrial and financial applications. The competition is fierce. During WAIC 2025, the SAIL Grand Prize and SAIL Stars will be officially announced.

Outstanding Youth Paper Award

The "wisdom arena" for top students

Background:

Outstanding Youth Paper Award: It is a "brainstorming field" in the academic circle, centrally displaying the basic research and technological innovation achievements of young scientists in the field of intelligent science, and encouraging more young people to engage in AI.

This year, a total of 199 papers were submitted, a 25.2% increase year - on - year, fully demonstrating the hardcore strength of the younger generation.

Features:

Global wisdom has gathered. Shanghai, with 109 submissions, has become the "host". Scholars from many places such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States have participated. The research covers fields such as large models, embodied intelligence, AI for Science. Young top students are the main force. The average age of the authors is 29.28 years old, and 79.4% are doctoral students. Many papers have been published in top journals and conferences such as Nature, Science, CVPR, and NeurIPS.

The 5th BPAA Application Algorithm Model Practice Model Competition

The "global circle of friends" for algorithm practice

Background:

BPAA Application Algorithm Model Practice Model Competition: As a core event of WAIC, this competition is specifically designed for "the implementation of large - model applications". More than a thousand teams from 15 countries around the world come to "show their solutions", aiming to solve the problem of "from technology to business".

Features:

The competition continues the cross - border gene of WAIC, bringing together global academic and enterprise teams to build a closed - loop ecosystem from algorithm R & D to industrial empowerment, and providing a reusable AI commercialization paradigm; focusing on 6 major "AI +" tracks to directly address application pain points, promoting the matching of technology with industrial needs, and guiding algorithms to shift from comparing indicators to creating value; deeply linking seven cities in the Yangtze River Delta to jointly build a technological ecosystem, providing full - cycle support for winning teams, outputting the "Chinese solution" and creating a sustainable sample.

The 8th Shanghai (China) Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition and National Invitational Tournament

The AI growth camp from kids to college students

Background:

Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition: With the original intention of "starting artificial intelligence from kids", guided by multiple departments such as the Communist Youth League Shanghai Municipal Committee, centered on Shanghai and with multi - party collaboration, it radiates to the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country, providing a platform for more teenagers to learn artificial intelligence and a stage to display scientific and technological creativity.

Features:

This year's competition has initiated a full - education - stage cultivation system, covering from kindergarten to university. One more project for higher education has been added, building a stepped closed - loop for AI talent cultivation; deepening the integration of industry and education, setting up practical projects such as drones to explore technology implementation, and promoting learning through competition by combining innovation exploration camps and AIGC creation activities; relying on the WAIC platform to upgrade the communication level, covering more than 20 provinces and municipalities with over 15 million person - times. Award - winning contestants will showcase their works at the WAIC closing ceremony, expanding the influence of youth scientific and technological innovation.

Artificial intelligence is by nature a "young cause", like a continuously evolving living organism, containing infinite possibilities; it is also a "cause for young people". The youthful characteristics of young people, who dare to think and try, are naturally in line with the creativity required by artificial intelligence. There are no pre - determined answers here, only the new rules written by young people with codes; there are no fixed tracks, only the brand - new paths opened up by them. This two - way journey between the "young cause" and "young people" is making every line of code pulse with the rhythm of youth —— the encounter between the most dreamy age and the most imaginative field is itself a very charming chemical reaction.