Multiple AI Deployment Updates from WAIC
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-07-19
This is a roundup of AI industry news from WAIC, focusing heavily on "enterprise AI adoption" and the "commercialization of edge devices/robotics."
- Han Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group, emphasized that enterprise AI's value goes beyond individual productivity boosts; it must drive organizational evolution, ultimately forming an organizational intelligence comprising "digital employees + agent partners + collaborative networks."
- Changzhou launched its first city-level green Token factory. Participants include the Municipal Data Bureau, Changzhou High-tech Zone, SPIC, Alibaba Cloud, Wangsu Science & Technology, and DeepForce, aiming to build a computing-power synergy ecosystem.
- Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform launched HappyOyster1.0, an open-ended world model product supporting both "world exploration" and "real-time director" modes. It offers Android, iOS, and Web SDKs and is currently in grey-box testing.
- Nubia introduced the NaviXUltra, an AI agent smartphone featuring the Doubao phone assistant. Both parties stated that their partnership has gone through a complete cycle of technical verification and product iteration.
- Accelerate Evolution released BoosterT2, a flagship bipedal humanoid robot platform. The Pro version is equipped with NVIDIA Thor, delivering 2070 TFLOPS of compute, with a strong emphasis on transitioning from simulation to real-world deployment.
- Xiaomi obtained the first batch of L3 certificates under the national standard "Intelligence Classification for AI Terminals," which categorizes terminal intelligence from L1 to L4.
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