Large models, robots, and Agents made a concentrated appearance... How many AI "future answers" are hidden in the 36Kr live streaming room of "Talking about the Future" at WAIC 2025?
On July 26, the scorching sun and sudden showers alternated in Shanghai, but they couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the crowds. The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High - level Conference on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence (WAIC 2025), a global top - tier academic and industrial event in the field of artificial intelligence, officially kicked off at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center.
Stepping into this year's WAIC exhibition hall, one is immediately greeted by an unprecedented wave of technological heat. The exhibition area has exceeded 70,000 square meters for the first time. Featuring "model applications + embodied intelligence + intelligent hardware" as its core characteristics, it showcases more than 40 large - scale models, over 50 AI terminals, more than 60 intelligent robots, and over 100 high - profile new products making their "global debut" or "China premiere". This scale sets a new record for all previous editions. Beyond the "underlying" technologies, application stories in industries such as healthcare, education, industry, and finance are also presented one by one, making AI a tangible and experiential productive force.
As the entire industry focuses on and discusses "how AI technology and applications can integrate with the entire industrial chain", on July 26, at this WAIC conference, 36Kr once again joined hands with the conference organizing committee to create the "Kr Talk about the Future" live - streaming room at WAIC 2025. It invited relevant leaders from well - known domestic and international AI companies to focus on the AI scenario and application ends, and discuss successful implementation cases of AI technology and applications. This year, the content matrix of the live - streaming room has been further upgraded on the basis of last year. In addition to the original round - table live discussions, two new sections, "Live Exhibition Tour" and "36Kr Interview Room", have been added. Through the form of "video interviews + live exhibition tours", it presents in a three - dimensional way the technological breakthroughs of AI companies, the real paths of industrial implementation, and the cutting - edge thinking of global AI leaders.
What was discussed in the "Kr Talk about the Future" live - streaming room at WAIC 2025?
As "the integration of AI with the entire industrial chain" becomes the industry's focus, the five in - depth conversations in the live - streaming room unveiled the real picture of AI technology implementation. From barriers to going global to medical innovation, from hardware revolution to regional ecosystems, the guests' sharing holds the key codes for AI commercialization.
Where are the "fuel" and "stage" for AI to go global?
After the large - scale implementation of domestic AI applications, "going global" has become a must - answer question for enterprises. But in the context of global competition, where are the "fuel" and "stage" for Chinese AI application enterprises to go global? King Cui, the President of GMI Cloud in the Asia - Pacific region, said bluntly: "Going global with AI has shifted from 'whether to do it' to 'how to do it with high quality'." He emphasized that computing power with local deployment and elastic expansion is the core competitiveness for AI application enterprises going global. For example, advanced GPU cards like H200 can halve the inference cost, and the global computing power scheduling ability determines whether an enterprise can quickly respond to the needs of the overseas market. Besides computing power, he believes that the "barriers" for AI applications going global are also hidden in the details: "The basic capabilities of the model should be solid, and the product experience should be user - friendly." In response, the solution provided by GMI Cloud is the "one cloud + dual - engine" model, which uses the global computing power network to cover scenarios and balances performance and cost through the Cluster Engine and Inference Engine.
How can AI + medical agents reconstruct the entire health management chain?
As the industry shifts from "racing for large - scale models" to "competing for industrial value", the medical payment scenario has become a key battlefield for the in - depth penetration of AI technology. How to "solve real pain points" has become the core code to break the situation. In the second live interview, the conversation between He Sichong, the project leader of Ant Group's NEXTA Innovation Laboratory, and Qu Yuqi, the vice - president of Meixin Health, revealed the breakthroughs of AI agents in the field of medical payment. Qu Yuqi disclosed that AI agents have achieved breakthroughs in the medical payment field. Taking Meixin Health's self - developed "Claims Master" agent as an example, through professional data training, focusing on the three major pain points of "inefficient material processing, rough disease course analysis, and lagging clause interpretation" in health insurance drug claims, it has reduced the review time from over 30 minutes to within 10 minutes, with a medical review coverage rate of 60%. The underlying mind42.ai platform integrates knowledge in high - barrier fields such as clinical pathways and insurance clauses, enabling intelligent decision - making that "understands both medicine and insurance". He Sichong, the project leader of Ant Group's NEXTA Innovation Laboratory, summarized that AI ultimately allows people to realize their value rather than becoming a tool of technology.
Is the AI PC an upgrade of tools or a revolution of "human - machine symbiosis"?
With the disruptive innovation of AI technology, the PC industry has entered the AI era. As AI PCs evolve from being "usable" to "user - friendly", what kind of leap will the usage experience of individual consumers undergo? How will enterprises respond to this efficiency revolution? In the third conversation, Mindy Zhang, the person in charge of Windows platform cooperation in Greater China at Microsoft, demonstrated the current "pragmatism". Zan Zhongyang, the person in charge of AI marketing in Greater China at AMD, also said, "Your PC can be a designer, a programmer, and a translator at the same time. A 'one - person company' is entirely feasible." All these signs indicate that this efficiency revolution is just around the corner.
How can the Binhaiwan New Area in Dongguan build a "golden springboard" for AI enterprises?
"It takes 10 minutes to reach Qianhai in Shenzhen, 20 minutes to reach Bao'an Airport, and 40 minutes to reach West Kowloon in Hong Kong." In the fourth live - stream, Xue Kunyang, the deputy general manager of Dongguan Binhaiwan Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., revealed the attractiveness of this "AI new area" through its transportation advantages. Wan Yulong, the general manager of OPPO's Intelligent Assistant Department, straightforwardly stated the reason for choosing this place: "Fast business operations, proximity to data sources, and proximity to talent." More importantly, it's the industrial ecosystem. With a 1.2 - billion - yuan electronic information fund, a 1 - billion - yuan AI mother fund, and the full - chain space for "R & D - pilot - production" in the Lingxi Island AI Town, enterprises such as Ubtech and WeRide have flocked to settle in. "We're not just attracting investments," Xue Kunyang said. "We want enterprises to 'work on the island, manufacture in the surrounding areas, and target the global market'."
From "auxiliary diagnosis" to "paradigm revolution" in AI + biomedicine
The application of AI in the field of medical imaging is triggering a paradigm shift. How to balance the technical difficulties in important scenarios has become a common topic in the industry. Dr. Song Ning, the founder of Deshikang Bio, pointed out in the live - stream that artificial intelligence will not replace the core value of doctors, but the future development of the medical industry shows that the application of artificial intelligence technology can make medical treatment more precise and effectively promote clinical medical work into the intelligent era. Academician Chen Runsheng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences emphasized that the combination of AI and medicine needs to overcome obstacles such as data bias and ethical review, but the trend is irreversible: "Precision diagnosis and treatment through multi - modal data fusion will gradually break the 'impossible triangle' of efficiency, cost, and coverage." Dr. Song Ning's team has explored a path: the "general medical imaging base model + specialized fine - tuning training" model, which significantly reduces the training data requirements for the development of specialized models.
36Kr's exploration at WAIC to touch the "future" AI black technology
In addition to the in - depth conversations in the live - streaming room, 36Kr's "exploration team" also visited the four major exhibition halls at WAIC, personally tested more than a dozen cutting - edge products, and led the audience to immerse themselves in the experience of those future "black technologies" at the WAIC 2025 exhibition.
From AI parks to AI - enabled industries, from intelligent offices to intelligent robots, through on - site experiences and interviews, 36Kr's "exploration team" let the audience know that AI is no longer a distant concept but a "future tool" right in front of us.
At the booth of the Binhaiwan New Area in Dongguan, Zhu Peijian, the director of the Economic, Science, and Technology and Finance Bureau, and Zhu Siqi, a representative of industrial investment, demonstrated the chemical reaction of "manufacturing + AI". "90% of the components of a computer can be purchased within an hour, and the fastest time from design to production of a new product is 18 days." The intelligent computing center and the 1 - billion - yuan AI mother fund here are making the concept of "R & D on the island, manufacturing in the surrounding areas" a reality.
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PPIO, a domestic independent distributed cloud computing service provider, has launched an Agentic AI infrastructure platform this time. In response to the development needs of agent characteristics, PPIO has introduced AI agent platform products, divided into a general version and an enterprise version. The general version is supported by a highly cost - effective distributed GPU cloud base. It has launched China's first Agent sandbox compatible with the E2B interface and a model service more suitable for agent construction. The unit price of the Agent sandbox with the same specifications is less than 50% of the official E2B price, providing an AI agent platform with performance, efficiency, and cost advantages for individual developers and small - and medium - sized enterprises.
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