Beijing Hosts AI Forum to Boost Industrial Transformation

BEIJING, March 29 — As artificial intelligence (AI) enters a critical phase from technological boom to industrial application, the "AI Future Forum: Transition, Investment, Symbiosis", a special forum of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting’s "AI Theme Day", was held in Beijing on March 29, focusing on cutting-edge AI innovation and industrial transformation, reported People’s Daily.

AI enterprises including Shengshu Technology, Guanglun Intelligence and Tanwei CoreLink shared their core innovations, covering world models, embodied intelligence data infrastructure and domestic GPU high-speed interconnection solutions. Investors attending the forum noted that AI is restructuring the industrial ecology and bringing new opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation, with the synergy of industrial ecology and capital empowerment supporting its large-scale application.

In the field of large models, world models became the focus. Zhu Jun, founder of Shengshu Technology and vice dean of the AI Research Institute at Tsinghua University, demonstrated how the company uses world models to enhance robots’ generalization ability, enabling them to complete autonomous decision-making tasks such as playing chess and folding clothes. He highlighted that data scale and quality remain industry bottlenecks, and his company adopts a model of pre-training with unlabeled data combined with a small amount of high-quality labeled data to improve efficiency.

Guanglun Intelligence, the first unicorn enterprise in the embodied data field that completed financing in March, has cooperated with 1,000 scenario partners and accumulated 10 million hours of embodied data. Yang Haibo, co-founder and president of Guanglun Intelligence, predicted 2026 would be the first year of large-scale embodied data, with embodied intelligence accelerating industrialization in auto assembly and 3C electronic precision assembly.

As a communication solution provider, Tanwei CoreLink has achieved a complete Scale-Up super-node communication interconnection solution. Liu Xue, founder and CEO of the company, stated that the company has broken through key technologies to address the common bottleneck of GPU multi-card communication, filling the gap in domestic high-performance communication infrastructure.

Investors discussed AI’s impact on industrial ecology. Xu Chuansheng, founding managing partner of Matrix Partners China, noted that AI agents are breaking the traditional logic of tool-based SaaS. Zhou Kui, partner of Sequoia China, emphasized that "model as application" allows startups to challenge industry giants. Liu Qin, founding partner of Five Seasons Capital, suggested startups focus on industrial scenarios to build competitive advantages.

Beijing has become a core engine for AI innovation in China with a sound industrial ecosystem. Data disclosed at the forum shows that Beijing’s AI industry scale reached 450 billion yuan in 2025, with over 60 listed AI companies and 40 unicorn enterprises, accounting for more than half of the country’s total. Zhongguancun Science City signed cooperation agreements with six leading investment institutions to further boost the AI innovation ecosystem.

The forum has built a bridge between technological innovation, capital and industrial application, showcasing China’s remarkable achievements in AI research and industrial layout. With the joint efforts of enterprises, investors and government departments, Beijing is solidifying its position as a global AI innovation hub, driving the high-quality development of the AI industry.