WAIC Yunfan Award Announces New Winners
机器之心 · wechat · 2026-07-19
This article announces the winners of the **2026 WAIC Yunfan Award** for both "Bright Stars" and "Rising Stars," with an on-site ceremony. It extensively details the winners' educational backgrounds, research directions, representative achievements, entrepreneurial experiences, and industry implementations, mapping out the technical landscape and industry standing of this cohort of young AI talent. The winners span various fields including video generation, foundation models, AI infrastructure, embodied intelligence, multimodal large models, code models, world models, secure and trustworthy AI, AI chips, robotic platforms, aging science, and molecular design. The article frequently highlights open-source projects, top-tier papers, commercialization, funding, and product launches, showcasing the distribution and achievements of key figures under 35 in China's AI research and startup ecosystem. For outsiders, this piece serves as an **AI talent and sector map": featuring top-tier academic authors, startup founders, corporate tech leaders, and infrastructure/hardware researchers, reflecting the current WAIC awards' dual preference for "research capability + industrialization capability."
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