Feng Dagang, CEO of 36Kr, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizer | 36Kr 2025 AI Partner Conference for All Industries

On August 27th, the 2025 AI Partner Conference for All Industries, jointly hosted by 36Kr and the China Europe International Business School, grandly kicked off at the Zhongguancun Software Park in Beijing. The theme of this conference is "Chinese Solutions", which is divided into two major chapters: "Chinese Solutions" and "Who Will Define the Next AI Era". Centering around four major topics, namely "The Golden Moment of Chinese Innovation", "Can Super Intelligent Agents Become the Core Form of the Next Generation of AI?", "Chinese Solutions Reshape the Global Technological Competition Landscape", and "The Prosperous Scenario of the Integrated Innovation of AI and All Industries", the conference comprehensively presented the latest breakthroughs and ecological systems of Chinese AI, shared the growth path and future prospects of Chinese-style AI, and explored the innovative models of Chinese solutions.

On that day, Feng Dagang, the CEO of 36Kr, delivered an opening speech.

The following is the content of the speech, edited by 36Kr:

Distinguished guests, partners, and AI practitioners from all industries:

Good morning, everyone! I'm Feng Dagang from 36Kr. Welcome to the AI Partner 2025 Conference.

I'm very excited to see so many new faces at the AI Partner Conference, which indicates that there are constantly new practitioners emerging in the AI field. 36Kr holds many conferences every year, but the AI conference is my favorite because there are always new and interesting things.

The IP of AI Partner originated during the "Battle of a Hundred Models" two years ago. At that time, we saw that the development of large AI models had a huge potential to transform all industries. So, we decided to create this IP to promote the connection between AI and all industries.

We put forward an idea: It's not about having 100 or 200 large models. Instead, if one million Chinese enterprises adopt AI, then the spring of AI will come. From the very beginning, the main focus of AI Partner has been all industries. So, the theme of our first conference was "I'm Empowered by AI". Looking back now, most of the sharing participants at our first conference were still large model companies. At that time, the concepts of embodied intelligence and intelligent agents hadn't come into the public view.

If we were looking forward to the spring of AI two years ago, now the spring of AI has arrived, and it's even starting to enter summer. More than one million Chinese enterprises have incorporated AI into their business operations. Moreover, the monthly active users of DeepSeek and Doubao each exceed 100 million, and consumers at the C-end have also started using AI.

Today's theme is "Chinese Solutions". Two years ago, the global discussion on AI focused on the competition of computing power and parameter scale. But today, when the world is caught in the anxiety of "technology supremacy", there are three prominent keywords on China's answer sheet: in-depth exploration of scenarios, reaching the general public, and win - win ecological cooperation. This clearly makes me feel that we are completing the transformation from "Chinese Applications" to "Chinese Solutions"!

China can be said to be the "predestined land" for AI. We have a large population, abundant data, and numerous scenarios. There is sufficient "fuel" for AI. Chinese enterprises are very good at implementing AI applications, and the public is also willing to use AI. With this combination, AI has developed very rapidly in China, and many solutions with Chinese characteristics have emerged, which are quite different from those in the West.

So, today you will see many new intelligent terminals, humanoid robots, and intelligent agents at the conference, as well as solutions in scenarios such as factories, elderly care, education, companionship, high - risk operations, and even carbon management. We spent a lot of time finding these excellent enterprises and products. They may become great companies in the future and continue to create more value.

Although today's theme is "Chinese Solutions", we particularly hope that Chinese solutions can become global solutions. We hope to soon see which is the first successful Chinese embodied intelligence enterprise or AI application enterprise to go global, and then the second, the third, and finally form a group of Chinese solutions to serve different regions of the world. We believe that the best AI applications, whether software or hardware, will be born in China.

The agenda of today's conference focuses on intelligent agents and humanoid robots in the morning and solutions for all industries in the afternoon. Each part is very exciting. In addition, our partner Lenovo will also release the Lenovo Baiying Intelligent Agent 2.0. Welcome everyone to pay attention.

Every August, the AI Partner event is the concluding activity of the year. We hope to find a group of bold and interesting people every year, who can bring their solutions and products to the conference and jointly promote the development of Chinese - style AI solutions with us.

Now, let's hand the stage over to today's sharing guests and start today's AI feast. Thank you!