Physical AI & World Model conference opens in Nanjing with 5B-yuan fund and national standard plans
量子位 · wechat · 2026-10-21
The 2026 Physical AI & World Model Conference opened in Nanjing on Oct 20, hosted by Jiangsu Data Group, Nanjing Big Data Group and the China AI Society. Turing Award winners Yann LeCun, Andrew Yao and John Hopcroft shared video talks; academician Dai Qionghai argued world models upgrade AI from recognizing to reasoning about the physical world; Momenta CEO Cao Xudong predicted 2028 as the inflection point for L4 scaling.
Key concrete outcomes: a 10-city data labeling alliance across Jiangsu-Anhui, a provincial high-quality dataset action plan with 50 typical application scenarios for 2026, an embodied intelligence standards working group plus pre-research on a national world-model standard, and China's first Physical AI & World Model investment fund signed at 5 billion yuan.
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