The champions of the three tracks of the Bund Summit AI Innovation Competition have been announced. Nearly 20,000 people and 8,000 teams from around the world participated in the competition.
On September 10, the 2025 Inclusion·Bund Conference Science and Technology Intelligence Innovation Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Bund Conference AI Science and Technology Innovation Competition") successfully concluded in Shanghai. Under the guidance of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the champions, runners-up, and third - place winners of the three core events of the competition - the "Artificial Intelligence Hardware Science and Technology Innovation Competition", the "AFAC Financial Intelligence Innovation Competition", and the "2025 Global AI Attack - Defense Challenge" were all announced. The competition set up multiple innovation awards, and a total of 80 projects won awards, with a number of innovative achievements that combine technological foresight and market potential emerging.
The competition provided real practice opportunities and a display platform for innovators and enterprises, and attracted more than 8,000 teams and nearly 20,000 technology enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from nearly 20 countries and regions around the world. Among them, post - 2000 contestants accounted for more than half, fully demonstrating the youthfulness and international characteristics of the event.
Illustration: The champions of the three tracks of the Bund Conference AI Science and Technology Innovation Competition were born.
Post - 2000 contestants take the lead, and contestants from nearly 20 countries compete fiercely at the Bund
According to the organizing committee of the Bund Conference, this is the second year of holding the AI Science and Technology Innovation Competition. The overall scale of participants in this year's competition is twice that of last year. Post - 2000 contestants have become the absolute main force, accounting for more than half, and the youthful power has become a prominent label of the competition.
The internationalization level of the competition has also been significantly improved. Contestants are from nearly 20 countries and regions such as China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Japan, covering top universities at home and abroad such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, Tsinghua University, and Peking University. Well - known enterprises such as Huawei, Tencent, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China have also actively participated, fully demonstrating the competition concept that innovation has no boundaries and the youth creates the future together.
The competition provided a prize pool of up to 1.62 million yuan for the winners, along with diverse display and docking channels such as the Creator Innovation Stage, investor meetings, and technology fairs. The project team Shudan Medical, which won the championship, got a direct pass to the "Venture Capital Meetup" and carried out in - depth docking with first - tier investment institutions, receiving all - round resource support from project financing to talent recruitment. Teng Junhu, a member of the championship team, sighed: "The competition provided us with valuable exposure and resource docking opportunities. We truly felt the power of having our technology recognized and innovation supported."
The AI hardware track is highly favored by investors, and the robot rescue show shocks the scene
This year, the AI Science and Technology Innovation Competition added the "Artificial Intelligence Hardware Science and Technology Innovation Competition", focusing on the field of AI intelligent hardware to find AI hardware innovation products that can be put into practice and have market potential. Finally, AI digital medical care, AI elderly life assistants, AI programming puzzles, AI companion toys and other AI hardware innovation projects stood out.
Illustration: The on - site roadshow of the top ten teams in the Artificial Intelligence Hardware Science and Technology Innovation Competition
At the on - site roadshow of the top ten teams in the competition, investors highly recognized the innovation of the competition. Du Feng, the founding partner of Jiamen Venture Capital and a judge of the competition, said: "The contestants' projects truly reflect the diverse paths for AI hardware to move from concept to life. In the fields of consumer electronics, health care, interactive entertainment, etc., we have seen the engineering capabilities of mature and implementable, and in - depth integration of software and hardware. This also clearly points to the mainstream trend of 'AI + real economy'. In the future, we will continue to promote the docking of such high - quality projects with industrial resources."
As an important part of this competition, the "Robot Vocational Skills Performance Competition" brought a wonderful robot rescue performance, which was eye - catching. The robots climbed over rough highlands, operated electrical box switches, inserted gunpowder detonators, and even successfully rescued a "baby" from the ruins. The complete and smooth operations and the warm - hearted scenes won applause from the audience. Ant Group, the question - setter of the competition, said, "We hope that by holding this competition, we can call on the embodied intelligence industry to continuously solve real problems. Where humans need to be protected is the direction for AI to move forward."
This year, the competition invited a public jury for the first time, hoping that the works in the hardware competition could be truly recognized by users and encouraging technology to enter applications and life. A Wang, a Hangzhou citizen who served as a public experience officer of the competition, repeatedly exclaimed on the spot: "These new technologies are not only useful for young people, but also very practical for us elderly people."
Illustration: The Bund Conference AI Science and Technology Innovation Competition invited the "Public Jury" for the first time
Confronting real industry issues: Innovative solutions emerge in the financial intelligence and AI security tracks
The competition designed competition questions based on the rich application scenarios of Ant Group, continuing the two cutting - edge tracks of "Financial Intelligence" and "AI Security". Confronting the real needs of the industry, a number of technical solutions with implementation potential emerged, presenting an innovative situation of in - depth integration of technology and scenarios.
In the financial intelligence track, the "AFAC Financial Intelligence Innovation Competition" adheres to "solving real problems with real efforts". Relying on real business scenarios and massive data, it promotes the industrial application of cutting - edge technologies such as optical communication, satellite remote sensing, graph computing, intelligent risk control, and blockchain. It is reported that the winning projects of this year's competition accurately targeted the core pain points of the financial industry such as anti - fraud, anti - money laundering, and credit assessment, and produced a number of interdisciplinary and cross - field solutions that are both forward - looking and practical.
Illustration: The world's first multi - modal AI security benchmark dataset is open - sourced
In the AI security track, the "2025 Global AI Attack - Defense Challenge" was jointly hosted by the Chinese Association for Pattern Recognition, Ant Group, and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Greater China. The competition focused on the security of intelligent interaction authentication of digital identity AI large - scale models, set up multi - modal scenarios of images, videos, and audios, and adopted the attack - defense competition mode of "using AI to fight against AI" to promote the iterative evolution of security technologies.
Liu Jian, the person - in - charge related to the competition and the person - in - charge of AI identity verification security at Ant Group, said, "As AI technology penetrates into all walks of life, the security defense line is facing continuous challenges. Through this competition, we have accumulated a large number of generated samples, providing precious data resources for the full - modal anti - counterfeiting task." It is worth mentioning that Ant Security and Intelligence Laboratory open - sourced the world's first multi - modal AI security benchmark dataset OpenMMSec on the spot and launched the "Flint Talent Plan" for outstanding contestants, achieving "instant employment" through direct job offers to jointly build a more stable AI security ecosystem.
Illustration: Zheng Guanghong, the second - level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission
Zheng Guanghong, the second - level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said on the spot: "The three tracks of the Bund Conference Science and Technology Innovation Competition cover AI hardware innovation, financial intelligence, and AI security attack - defense, multi - dimensionally demonstrating the complete ecosystem of artificial intelligence from technology to application, from concept to industry. We will actively promote resource docking, promote the implementation of winning projects, attract more high - level teams, gather global wisdom, and cultivate talents with innovation and practical abilities to jointly promote Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a global - influential science and technology innovation center."