The thousand-year-old water town has inherited the tide of the times, and the digital Wuzhen has gathered global knowledge.
The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, with the theme of "Open Source, Co-construction and Sharing—Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace", kicked off as scheduled.
As an important platform for exchanges and cooperation in the global digital field, this summit takes "open source" as its distinctive background, gathers global wisdom, injects new momentum and gathers new synergy for the innovative development of the global Internet, digital governance reform, and improvement of people's livelihood and well-being.
Activate innovation momentum with open source
Walking into the "Light of the Internet" expo, Tencent displayed the newly released Hunyuan Hy4 preview large model in the center of the exhibition area. According to on-site staff, the influence of open source models is continuing to expand from the technical circle to the industrial level. The release of the Hy4 preview large model is fully open source and is oriented to productivity scenarios such as software engineering, scientific research, and smart office.
"Open source and openness are the foundation of the Internet. Openness has generated massive amounts of data, which has become the fuel for large models. Entering the era of intelligent agents, the value of open source and openness is even more critical." said Zhang Yaqin, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the founding director of the Intelligent Industry Research Institute of Tsinghua University.
Open source ecological construction has become an important topic of this Wuzhen Summit. As a featured project focused on this summit, the open source themed ecological experience hall comprehensively displays the ecosystem in which open source and openness promote artificial intelligence from technological breakthroughs to industrial applications and social inclusion. In the exhibition hall, a number of open source landmark achievements such as Zhijiang Laboratory's 021 scientific basic model and the Moda Community (Hangzhou) Developer Center were gradually rolled out, and national artificial intelligence application pilot bases in six major fields were unveiled.
At the same time, the main forum of the Wuzhen Summit innovatively set up the "Artificial Intelligence Wuzhen Dialogue", inviting the world's leading technology companies, heads of open source large model companies, and artificial intelligence scientists to discuss the construction of a global artificial intelligence open source ecosystem. Many guests attending the meeting believed that after the supply of basic models becomes easier to obtain, the competition track is extending outwards, and computing base, development tools, industry solutions, service ecology, etc. have become new competition positions.
Empowering industries with applications to benefit people’s livelihoods
The "Jiu Zhang 4" optical quantum computing prototype, optical transmission technology and applications for space quantum information, and vehicle-based intelligent technology platform for physical AI... On November 2, 20 achievements won the 2026 World Internet Conference Leading Technology Award, covering cutting-edge fields such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, aerospace information, and intelligent agent productivity platforms.
At this year's Wuzhen Summit "Light of the Internet" Expo, a large number of artificial intelligence innovations were unveiled, vividly demonstrating the powerful power of digital technology to empower the real economy and improve people's livelihood and well-being.
In a simulated retail pharmacy scenario, robots equipped with the Ant LingBot model can already flexibly grab medicines in different packages.
"This robot has been put into use in many pharmacies in Pudong, Shanghai." Duan Xiaoyue, a market operation expert at Ant Lingbo, said that the LingBot series model has supported 17 brands and more than 20 robots of different configurations. The data fed back by users during the debugging and use process will also feed back the iterative upgrade of the model.
Robots "take charge" in different scenarios rely on their "intelligent brains". Various elements such as computing power, servers, models, algorithms, and data are combined with new Internet technologies to support robots in completing various specific actions.
In the Aitu Technology exhibition area, the robot accurately grasped fabrics and completed a series of precise operations such as sewing, buttonholing, and buttoning, which amazed many viewers. "This skill is comparable to that of a master sewing craftsman," said audience member Shen Peihua.
With the theme of "Intelligent Internet, Wisdom for the Future", this expo has 671 exhibitors from 54 countries and regions bringing more than 1,000 new technologies and products to comprehensively display the development results of "intelligent Internet".
"The core of developing artificial intelligence is to magnify the value and role of people and let artificial intelligence achieve people." According to Xi Dan, senior vice president of Tencent Group, artificial intelligence may reshape production and life, but technology workers and technology companies should adhere to the mission and vision of "people-oriented, AI for good" and seek certainty in the era of artificial intelligence.
Build a solid foundation for open governance through shared governance
Technological openness is accompanied by shared responsibility and governance. All parties participating in the meeting conducted in-depth discussions on common issues such as artificial intelligence security risks, and advocated building a solid bottom line for security while encouraging technological innovation, and gathering pragmatic forces to build a peaceful, secure, open, cooperative, and orderly cyberspace.
In the past year, the pace of global artificial intelligence development has accelerated, the demand for artificial intelligence has continued to rise, and computing power has been in short supply. China continues to increase its efforts in model open source and ecological opening, and key indicators such as the number of downloads of open source models and the number of derivative models remain ahead.
Tsai Chongxin, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group, said: "Only open source can be popularized, and only popularized can create a sustainable and inclusive intelligent era."
Deep Search Research Engineer Gao Xi, Alibaba ATH Business Group Qianwenda Language Model Project Leader Liu Dayiheng and others said that open source is changing the narrative of artificial intelligence, allowing everyone to participate in artificial intelligence creation, which also brings more thinking about security and governance. Only by finding a path that balances innovation and security can we usher in the era of general artificial intelligence more quickly.
The excellent case study "Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace" was also released during the Wuzhen Summit. 11 practical samples were selected from more than 360 applications from more than 80 countries and regions, covering areas such as network security, trustworthy cross-border data management, and open source collaboration.
Will Abbey, executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Arm, Jiang Wen, vice president and general manager of the brand department of ZTE, and other attendees believed that these cases transformed governance consensus into replicable solutions, took into account security control and open innovation, helped bridge the digital divide, and provided a practical reference for global multi-party collaborative governance.
John Hoffman, chairman of the Global System for Mobile Communications Association, said that the Wuzhen Summit allows everyone to discuss how to build a globally shared and open Internet. This is not only the theme of this year’s event, but also the consistent purpose of previous summits – “leaving no one behind.” (Reporters Wu Huanqing, Sun Tiexiang, Shang Yiying, Wei Yijun)
