Global internet “big names” gather in the millennium water town, as “Wuzhen Time” opens again. Unlike previous years, AI and intelligent robots have become the main characters this year.
The 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will open on November 7 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. This grand event, which brings together global internet “big names,” not only continues the previous focus on cutting-edge technologies but also achieves breakthrough innovations in dimensions such as “digital intelligence” integration, international cooperation, and cultural heritage.
Notably, this year’s summit’s “Light of the Internet” expo has become a concentrated display stage for AI and robotics technologies, with the theme “AI takes the stage, robots perform,” showcasing over 600 domestic and foreign companies exhibiting more than a thousand AI products, covering cutting-edge fields such as quantum technology and humanoid robots.
From entrepreneurs’ visions for future logistics and AI technology to the deep applications of AI and robotics in medical, cultural, and industrial scenarios; from the launch of new products by leading unicorns to the proposal of a global AI governance report, the 2025 World Internet Conference not only showcases the vitality of technological innovation but also highlights China’s determination to build an open, cooperative, and secure digital future.
At the opening ceremony, Liu Qiangdong, founder of JD Group, announced that by April 2026, JD will establish the world’s first fully unmanned delivery station, achieving “door-to-door” unmanned services through drone delivery and robot loading. He envisions that future logistics will be deeply unmanned, with employee working hours potentially reduced to just one day a week or even one hour.
Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming focused on the evolution of AI technology, proposing a vision for the leap from General Artificial Intelligence (AGI) to Super Artificial Intelligence (ASI), and introduced that Alibaba is increasing investment to build a super AI cloud, promoting open-source and accessible full-stack AI capabilities.
Compared to previous years, the 2025 summit presents three major highlights: first, the “digital intelligence” element runs throughout, with the main forum setting up the “Six Little Dragons Wuzhen Dialogue,” gathering leaders of cutting-edge technology companies to discuss AI technology innovation; second, the first Digital Health Forum is held, focusing on the integration of medical AI and brain science, exploring paths for technology accessibility; third, the establishment of a Digital Heritage Professional Committee, promoting the digital protection and inheritance of cultural heritage through high-quality exhibitions, working group meetings, and digital training courses.
As one of the core components of the Wuzhen Summit, the “Light of the Internet” expo was held on the 6th, focusing on “Artificial Intelligence +” as the display highlight, presenting the latest achievements in AI technological innovation, industrial development, and empowering applications, attracting participation from 670 enterprises and institutions from 54 countries and regions worldwide.
At the expo, the “Mozi” embodied robot demonstrated its potential in household services by folding clothes with its dexterous mechanical arm; engineering robots can perform precise operations, applied in industrial handling and biochemical laboratory reagent injections; exoskeleton devices and specially designed “gloves” achieve human-robot collaboration, allowing operators to control robots to complete complex tasks through hand movements.
In the medical field, AI-assisted diagnosis and treatment became the focus. The intelligent health “magic mirror” completes the detection of over 30 health indicators, including psychological stress and disease risk, within 30 seconds through facial blood flow signals and blood spectrum optical imaging technology; scenarios such as AI traditional Chinese medicine, AI eye diagnosis, and AI tongue coating detection attracted many viewers to experience.
In cultural tourism, intelligent guide robots supporting nine languages have been put into use at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport and in the UAE, providing personalized travel suggestions based on the Deepseek large model.
Ant Group showcased the 2.0 version of the Bailing large model family at the expo, forming a comprehensive modal system covering language, thinking, and multimodal capabilities, and launched the first single-scene service robot Robbyant-R1, which has been applied in dining services, exhibition guidance, and medical Q&A.
Hengsheng Life’s “Jinlai Electric” intelligent charging pile matrix adapts to mainstream new energy vehicle brands, showcasing differentiated charging solutions. Tencent’s “Yuanbao” video dialogue system supports content interpretation, allowing users to forward content via WeChat for “Yuanbao” to summarize and analyze, achieving interactive Q&A in the comment section.
Additionally, 17 projects received the “Leading Technology Award,” covering fields such as large models, intelligent networking, embodied intelligence, and quantum computing. Tsinghua University’s memristor storage-computing integrated chip device and key technologies of the Beidou-3 satellite navigation signal demonstrate China’s breakthroughs in cutting-edge technology. Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen large model, due to its open-source of over 300 models and global downloads exceeding 600 million, became the only awarded open-source project.
Notably, the summit also launched the “Light of the Internet” expo super experience hall, with interactive projects such as robot fighting, VR time travel, and MR ancient book revival making technology accessible. The AI glasses digital companion service jointly launched by Ant Group and the conference enables navigation, payment, and scenic introduction through voice commands, constructing a full-link intelligent experience from guidance to consumption.
The summit also concentrated on releasing a batch of representative achievements in the internet field, among which two reports are particularly noteworthy.
The “Global Artificial Intelligence Standard Development Report” proposes responsible AI standard development suggestions in response to challenges such as rapid technological iteration, complex industrial chains, and differences in governance concepts; the report “Building a Global AI Safety and Governance System for the Common Good of Humanity” calls for the establishment of a global AI safety governance framework centered around the United Nations.
The “World Internet Conference Cultural Heritage Digitalization Case Collection (2025)” gathers 40 representative cases from 12 countries, covering directions such as digital restoration, virtual display, and immersive experience. The World Internet Conference Cultural Heritage Digitalization Professional Committee established during the summit will build an online cultural exchange platform to promote mutual learning among civilizations.
This “digital intelligence appointment” in the millennium water town is destined to be extraordinary, injecting new momentum into the development of the global internet and artificial intelligence.