Under the stone slabs, the wisdom of numbers surges. On November 3, the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. With the theme of "Open Source, Openness, Co-construction and Sharing - Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace", this year's summit focuses on the concept and practice of open source and open development of artificial intelligence and responds to the international community's general concerns about the development and governance of digital intelligence technology. Today, the Wuzhen Summit has become an important window for observing the world's technological frontiers and gaining insight into future development trends. During the summit, new models, new technologies, and new scenarios were presented, and innovative vitality was surging everywhere.
Open to the public for the first time, creating a new model of joint participation. During the summit, viewers can make reservations to view the exhibition through the official "Wuzhen Summit Audience Reservation Platform" mini program, and the summit has changed from "guest exclusive" to "everyone can make an appointment." Activities such as the "Light of the Internet" Expo and the Artificial Intelligence "Carnival" theme street have become popular check-in places for the public. Audiences of different ages and identities stopped in front of the booth to experience it and frequently liked it.
The summit also created a digital smart consumption market for the first time, allowing technology exhibitions to break away from the simple "exhibition mode" and usher in a new form of "experience + consumption". The public "touches" check-in booths, watches robot parade performances, and immersively visits markets. In tactile and tangible scenes, they have close contact with cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements, which also makes the abstract concept of "digital intelligence" become concrete and vivid.
The first release of cutting-edge technology, leading new technologies in the future of digital intelligence. For the first time, this summit focused on displaying technological innovations such as 6G, satellite Internet, quantum communications, and ultra-broadband. Among them, the core capabilities of 6G synaesthesia and intelligence integration are particularly eye-catching - faster communications, smarter perception, and stronger computing power, which are outlining a new picture of the next generation of mobile communications.
At the "Light of the Internet" expo, embodied intelligent robots and AI agents were unveiled, and more than 20 new products made their global debut, which was dizzying. A robot dog that can wag its tail, a robotic arm that can pour tea and hand things over, and the first "sports partner" that can play badminton and table tennis with people, allow the audience to experience the wonder of "human-machine symbiosis" during interaction...
At the main forum, the "Artificial Intelligence Wuzhen Dialogue" brought together global scientists and business leaders, allowing people to truly understand that "open source" is not a "self-talk" in the technology circle, but a vivid practice that allows innovative results to benefit more people. And behind all this "smartness" is the solid support of powerful computing power.
The venue will be expanded to create a new digital experience scenario. This year, a special branch venue of Puyuan was added to promote the in-depth integration of digital IP, trendy cultural creativity and technology. Relying on the water system of the ancient town, old street shops, deep residential courtyards and other real-life spaces, Chinese trendy IP contents are turned into cultural products that can be experienced, disseminated and consumed. The thousand-year-old ancient town and cutting-edge technology reflect each other, and the traditional charm and digital trends complement each other.
In addition, the summit focused on artificial intelligence OPC (one-person company) for the first time and held a series of activities to build a supply and demand docking platform for AI makers and industry demanders. One person and a set of AI tools can also leverage entrepreneurial dreams. The open platform is providing the soil for countless innovative dreams to grow.
Each of these "firsts" sends a clear new signal of openness to hosting conferences. The "circle of friends" at the Wuzhen Summit is getting bigger and bigger, and the "sense of participation" is getting stronger and stronger. When modern technology meets ancient Chinese towns, the wave of artificial intelligence is flowing over the bridge and spreading into a broader future. From open source and openness to co-construction and sharing, from technological breakthroughs to everyone's awareness, what the Wuzhen Summit wrote is not only a "new answer sheet" for technological iteration, but also a "new expectation" for jointly building a community with a shared future in cyberspace.
Author: Wu Yue Dou Hao
