2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit opens

China News Service, Wuzhen, Zhejiang, November 3 (Liu Liang, Xi Jinyan) The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit opened on the 3rd in Wuzhen, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province. The theme of this summit is "Open Source, Co-construction and Sharing—Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace."

Currently, the global Internet is undergoing intelligent transformation and systemic transition. The Internet is accelerating the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, blockchain and other technologies, which has a profound impact on the economy and society. At the opening ceremony held that day, many guests looked forward to the development of the Internet in the intelligent era.

Li Junhua, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, pointed out that the current increasingly close integration of the Internet and smart technology has brought technological dividends to various fields such as medical care and agriculture, but it is also accompanied by some challenges. In particular, there are still about 2.2 billion people in the world who have not yet "connected to the Internet." While promoting technology-driven economic and social development, we should also focus on allowing technological dividends to benefit more countries and bridge the technological development gap between countries.

John Hoffman, chairman of GSMA, emphasized the importance of strengthening open cooperation. He said that AI is developing at an alarming rate. Today, cutting-edge AI large models are widely used in multiple scenarios in the telecommunications industry. However, the ability of AI large models to fully understand network data, standards, etc. needs to be improved. This requires industry cooperation to jointly build open models, share common benchmark data sets, etc., and continue to promote industry progress based on each other's achievements.

Tsai Chongxin, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group, said that Chinese technology companies continue to increase their efforts in open source and ecological openness of large AI models. Not only do they lead the world in key indicators such as the number of downloads and the number of derived models, but their comprehensive performance and reasoning efficiency are also widely praised around the world. China's large AI models are highly competitive. Only if AI is open source can it be popularized, and only if it is popularized can we create a sustainable and inclusive intelligent era.

The main forum of this summit also set up an "Artificial Intelligence Wuzhen Dialogue" session, inviting the world's leading technology companies, heads of open source large model companies, and AI scientists to the same stage to discuss the construction of a global AI open source ecosystem. The summit will set up sub-forums, covering topics such as global governance initiatives, cyberspace cooperation, theories and policies in the digital intelligence era, robotics and embodied intelligence, etc. (over)