AI elites gather! The 2025 CICAS AI Agent Global Special Competition triggers a wave of participation.

The year 2025 is regarded as the first year of the commercialization of Agent AI. To address the major industrialization issues of AI Agents, promote the high - quality development of general artificial intelligence, future industries, and the real economy, and accelerate the formation of new - quality productive forces, from July to December 2025, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence hosted the "Scenario - Driven · Digital and Intelligent Powerhouse - The 3rd National Artificial Intelligence Application Scenario Innovation Challenge AI Agent Global Special Competition", jointly organized by the Organizing Committee of the National Artificial Intelligence Scenario Application Innovation Challenge, the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Computing Power Standards, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).

This competition is endorsed by seven internationally renowned scholars and industrial leaders, including Ni Mingxuan, Andrew Ng, Shen Xiangyang, Yang Ning, Yang Qiang, Zhu Xiaohu, and Zhou Hongyi, who form the competition's review presidium. As a global - class AI Agent competition, since the official registration channel opened on July 21, 2025, it has received over 200 registration applications for excellent AI Agent projects from around the world. The continuously incoming top - level teams will compete for a one - million - yuan prize and over 200 million in early - stage investment funds, jointly creating a "singularity breakthrough" moment for global AI Agent technological innovation.

The competition topics cover "open scenarios" and "industrial propositions": the open innovation track encourages global teams to freely apply for multimodal intelligent agent projects, while the industrial proposition track offers cutting - edge propositions such as the "ultra - modal cultural and creative generation engine" and the "real - time quantitative trading intelligent agent". By covering different industrial scenarios, from process optimization in manufacturing, risk management in finance, to auxiliary diagnosis in healthcare, and personalized services in education, the competition aims to provide participants with a core stage for innovative transformation, from technological breakthroughs to the reconstruction of the human - machine collaboration model, enabling AI Agents to truly become humanity's "super assistants" and jointly explore the boundaries of cognition and innovation possibilities.

Meanwhile, the AI Agent Global Special Competition is committed to providing technical and commercial empowerment to participating project teams, creating an innovation acceleration engine: First, technical empowerment, providing participating teams with free computing power of over 30 billion Tokens, an official AI toolbox, internal testing channels, and talent recruitment. Second, commercialization acceleration, offering one - on - one optimization of business plans by experts, accurately connecting and efficiently matching industrial supply and demand, and achieving the "preferred position for business market facilitation" (high - quality projects will be matched with 5 - 20 leading partners). Third, traffic exposure, providing over 500 million media traffic exposure through multiple channels such as central or provincial media, industry media, and social media KOLs online, and organizing offline events such as the semi - finals, award ceremonies, and AI Agent carnivals to expand the influence of the industrial ecosystem aggregation. Fourth, innovation incentives. The organizing committee will recommend projects that win the special prize in the CICAS National Finals to apply for the review qualification of the "Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award" and support the winning projects in the CICAS National Finals to compete preferentially for the "Most Promising and Demonstrative Solution for National Artificial Intelligence Application Scenarios".

The AI Agent Special Competition adheres to the scenario discovery concept of "long - term continuous cultivation of innovation sources and periodic cyclic on - stage competition", innovatively setting up a three - level competition schedule of "online points - based competition (online selection) - offline semi - finals - annual finals" and a cyclic competition system. The global launch ceremony of the competition will be held at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) on August 16. The online points - based competition (online selection) will start in September, and two offline cyclic semi - finals will be held in October and December. Each offline cyclic semi - final will have three levels of awards: special, first, and second prizes, respectively selecting high - quality winning projects.

It is reported that the organizing committee of the AI Agent Global Special Competition has been holding a regular "AGEx Meetup" closed - door meeting in Shenzhen every week, launching an exclusive empowerment plan for high - quality participating projects, and starting to prepare for the four theme exhibition areas of the offline cyclic semi - finals, including the competition main stage, industrial ecosystem exhibition, achievement carnival, and media matrix area. The secretariat of the organizing committee of the CICAS 2025 AI Agent Global Special Competition said, "China has the richest application scenarios and data assets. We are on the eve of an explosion in AI Agent applications. This competition will accelerate the cultivation of disruptive industrial new species and witness the birth of the next global star project!"