The MEET2026 Intelligent Future Conference was successfully held in Beijing! From computing power to applications, from academia to entrepreneurship: A comprehensive debate on the AI ecosystem for the future

Today, the MEET2026 Smart Future Conference hosted by QbitAI kicked off in Beijing. Under the theme of "Symbiosis without Borders, Intelligence Unleashing the Future", the conference has gathered nearly 30 top industry experts to jointly discuss the latest progress and future trends of AI technological innovation and industrial applications.

The guests at the conference cover academia, the industrial circle, and cutting - edge entrepreneurial forces, comprehensively presenting diverse voices in the AI ecosystem.

In the academic and scientific research fields, heavyweight scholars such as Zhang Yaqin, the Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research at Tsinghua University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Sun Maosong, the Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University; Wang Zhongyuan, the Dean of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence; and Zhu Ning, a professor of finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, all attended the conference, bringing forward - looking perspectives and in - depth insights.

The participating lineup in the industrial circle spans key sectors such as chips, cloud services, models, and terminals, forming the most representative full - stack force in the current AI industry. Leading enterprises in the industry, including Baidu, Qualcomm, Xiaomi, Ant Group, Amazon, Google Cloud, Kunlun Tech, Luchen Technology, PPIO, SenseTime, and Zhongguancun Kejin, all made an appearance.

Emerging innovative forces also attracted much attention. Representatives from emerging companies such as Zhuoshi Technology, Taichu Yuanqi, RockAI, Independent Variable Robotics, Guanglun Intelligence, Yunxi Technology, and Lingxin Qiaoshou also gathered here to jointly showcase the vibrant vitality of the AI innovation ecosystem.

Meanwhile, this year's MEET Conference specially launched two in - depth dialogues with high density and high information content. Han Xu, the founder and CEO of WeRide, and many heavyweight guests from Xiaosu Technology, Lianhui Technology, and Ant Baibaoxiang all participated.

In addition, the "Top 10 AI Trends Report for 2025" and the "2025 Annual AI List" compiled and summarized by QbitAI Think Tank were released at the conference, providing trend insights and value references for the industry.

Academic and Scientific Research Frontiers: Insights into AI Paradigms and Future Paths

As AI technology continues to evolve, guests from the academic and scientific research fields conducted in - depth sharing around core topics such as AI theoretical breakthroughs, large - model trends, and economic impacts.

Zhang Yaqin, the founding dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University and a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, presented his in - depth judgment on the "AI + trends". He said that the new round of artificial intelligence is the integration of information intelligence, physical intelligence, and biological intelligence, and in essence, it is also the integration of atoms, molecules, and bits.

Wang Zhongyuan, the dean of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, has rich experience and achievements in both artificial intelligence research and actual product systems such as search and recommendation. He delivered a keynote speech titled "The Year of AI Awakening: From the Digital World to the Physical World". Sun Maosong, the executive deputy dean of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University and a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, shared his insights on "Generative Artificial Intelligence and Large Models", providing insights from development trends, core challenges to future paths.

Zhu Ning, a professor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, titled his speech "Economic Thinking in the AI Era". He systematically analyzed the changes in thinking paradigms, global impacts, and structural adjustments in various industries brought about by the AI era from an economic perspective.

Industrial Technology Ecosystem: AI Accelerates Full - Link Scenario Implementation

This year's industrial guests at the conference cover the entire chain from computing power, models to terminals and industry applications, systematically presenting the actual implementation progress of AI in technological infrastructure and key scenarios.

Wang Ying, the vice - president of Baidu Group, with the theme of "Building Super Personal Intelligent Agents", demonstrated Baidu's breakthroughs in large - model technology and the application practices of AI Agents in content production, team collaboration, and organizational intelligence.

Dennis Yue, the head of enterprise and Chinese startup business in Greater China at Google Cloud, centered his speech around Google's full - link empowerment for startups to go global efficiently. He said that the future of AI lies in the autonomous collaboration between intelligent agents.

Zhao Junbo, a researcher in the "Hundred Talents Program" at Zhejiang University, a doctoral supervisor, and a senior technical expert at Ant Group, mainly focuses on the research and development of large models, world models, and synthetic data technology and the implementation of innovative technologies. His speech was titled "LLaDA: A Non - Consensus Manifesto on the Road to AGI".

Daniel Povey, the chief voice scientist at Xiaomi Group and an IEEE Fellow, used "biological evolution" to analogize the development of AI technology, sharing its inspiration for future AI research and development and Xiaomi's practices in this regard.

Fang Han, the chairman and CEO of Kunlun Tech, said that intelligent agent technology has brought about a qualitative change in AI products. He elaborated on Kunlun Tech's latest AI technology breakthroughs in the directions of intelligent agents and multi - modal generation.

You Yang, the founder and chairman of Luchen Technology and a young professor at the National University of Singapore, with the title of "AI Large Models Empowering All Industries", introduced their achievements and industry applications in the fields of AI large - model training acceleration and computing power optimization.

Yu Youping, the president of Zhongguancun Kejin, talked about the implementation of enterprise - level intelligent agents, proposing that the evolution from the Internet to artificial intelligence is essentially the evolution of connections. Intelligent agents, as super connectors, connect the core elements of enterprises to release new - quality productivity.

Xuan Shanming, the vice - president and CTO of the Large - Scale Computing Device Business Group at SenseTime, demonstrated SenseTime's layout of AI computing centers, the native AI Infra capability system, industry implementation results, and the new symbiotic paradigm of computing and electricity of "promoting computing with electricity and strengthening electricity with computing".

Yao Xin, the co - founder and CEO of PPIO, starting from the infrastructure in the Agent era, believes that Agent Infra is the operating system in the future AI era. At the same time, he also introduced how PPIO builds the operating system in the AI era.

Wang Yanpeng, the chief scientist of AI computing at Baidu Smart Cloud, introduced the path of large - scale application of Kunlun Chips, including hardware stability, cluster expansion capabilities, training adaptation, and alignment optimization of Dense/MoE/multi - modal models.

Wan Weixing, the head of AI product technology in China at Qualcomm, is responsible for the planning of software and hardware of Qualcomm's artificial intelligence engine on intelligent terminals and the construction of relevant ecosystems. He focused on "Hybrid AI: From Cloud to Edge Intelligence" and introduced a series of the latest progress.

Chen Xiaojian, the general manager of the product department in Greater China at Amazon Web Services, has rich work experience in the enterprise - level business field and is fully responsible for the implementation of cloud services in Greater China. He delivered a speech titled "Agentic AI: The Future is Here".

Cutting - Edge Entrepreneurship Frontline: Breaking Boundaries and Exploring New AI Paradigms

Emerging startup companies brought rich innovative perspectives to this year's conference, covering cutting - edge directions such as AI hardware, embodied intelligence, enterprise intelligent agents, and world models. These innovative forces have injected new ways of thinking and technological possibilities into the AI industry.

Zhuoshi Technology is a leading domestic technology innovation enterprise in industry models and intelligent applications. Zhao Ce, a partner and vice - president of Zhuoshi Technology, shared his insights on "Breaking the Deadlock of AI Commercialization with Industry Large Models and Applications" at the conference.

Qiao Liang, the co - founder of Taichu Yuanqi, systematically elaborated on the development path and practical progress of the computing power base in the AI era from multiple dimensions, including new trends in super - intelligent integrated application development, the evolution of high - performance computing systems, heterogeneous multi - core architectures, and the construction of computing power ecosystems.

Liu Fanping, the CEO of RockAI, with the theme of "Hardware Awakening: Let AI Break Free from the Constraints of Transformers", talked about the need for native memory and autonomous learning in the brains of future intelligent hardware and introduced their innovations at the architectural level.

Wang Qian, the founder of Independent Variable Robotics, titled his speech "Building the Foundation Model of the Physical World". He stated that there are essential differences between the virtual and physical worlds. The randomness of the ontology and the physical world makes it extremely difficult to control robots in the real world, and the complexity of physical contact determines the necessity of end - to - end solutions.

Yang Haibo, the co - founder and president of Guanglun Intelligence, introduced their practice in building a self - developed full - stack simulation infrastructure, which helps the world model and physical AI to be implemented in more scenarios.

Mao Jian, the COO and vice - president of Yunxi Technology, pointed out that enterprises are facing a systematic gap in the process of moving from digitalization to intelligence. He proposed to drive the full - link upgrade of decision - making, execution, and organizational models with "Operation × Agentic AI" to achieve intelligent operation implementation and create real business value.

Zhang Yanbai, the co - founder of Lingxin Qiaoshou, focuses on data - driven strategies and brand value leapfrogging. He demonstrated an embodied intelligence platform centered around dexterous hands and cloud - based intelligent brains at the conference.

High - Profile GenAI Talk + Cutting - Edge Agent Roundtable

In addition to the keynote speech session, the conference also arranged a high - profile GenAI Talk and a fruitful Agent roundtable this year:

Dialogue: GenAI Talk - "The Second Eight Years of the First - Batch Autonomous Driving Entrepreneurs"

Han Xu, the founder and CEO of WeRide, had a dialogue with Li Gen, the editor - in - chief of QbitAI. They deeply discussed how GenAI technology empowers autonomous driving.

Han Xu shared his views on the past seven years of autonomous driving and pointed out some progress that can be regarded as industry milestones. At the same time, he also talked about his views on the next seven years of autonomous driving and answered questions about the untapped value space in autonomous driving that requires outstanding talents to tackle.

Roundtable: Debating Agents - "How Long Until AI Agents Revolutionize All Industries?"

This year is considered the "Year of Intelligent Agents". The implementation forms of Agents are becoming increasingly diverse, but how to achieve a closed - loop of technology, products, and business remains a common challenge in the industry.

Du Zhiheng, the co - founder and CEO of Xiaosu Technology; Zhao Tiancheng, the CEO and chief scientist of Lianhui Technology; and Xu Dafeng, the head of the platform experience technology department at Ant Group, discussed how large models can reconstruct applications through Agents.

They each shared the most effective/representative Agent implementation scenarios on their own platforms and explored the division of the Agent industry chain and key technological improvement points of AI Agent products.

Finally, they also pointed out what they considered to be the most significant changes in 2025 and speculated on the next key evolution directions.

Announcement of the "2025 Annual AI List"

As the on - site atmosphere reached its climax, the highly anticipated "2025 Annual AI List" was officially announced at the conference. The selection work for this list officially started in September this year and lasted for three months, attracting hundreds of enterprises, institutions, and individuals to sign up for the selection. To ensure the objectivity and professionalism of the selection, the list was finalized by comprehensively considering multi - dimensional real - world data, combining in - depth research on hundreds of AI companies by QbitAI, and referring to the opinions of dozens of well - known industry experts.

Awards in five major dimensions, including the 2025 Annual Leading Enterprise in AI, the 2025 Annual Potential Startup in AI, the 2025 Annual Outstanding Product in AI, the 2025 Annual Outstanding Solution in AI, and the 2025 Annual Focus Figure in AI, were all presented.

Release of the "Top 10 AI Trends Report for 2025"

Through in - depth analysis of the global AI technology development situation, QbitAI Think Tank systematically sorted out the top ten key trends that will profoundly impact industrial development and social change in 2025.

At the end of the conference, the "Top 10 AI Trends Report for 2025" was officially released. The report comprehensively presented the development picture of AI technology from four dimensions: infrastructure, model evolution, application landscape, and the Chinese context.