Suzhou's Underrated AI Manufacturing Champions: Not All Wins Are for Show

You can imagine Suzhou's AI track as the opposite of Cao Dewang's controversy back in 2017. At the time, everyone was fixated on whether he had "run away," yet no one noticed that Fuyao Glass's factory in Suzhou had already achieved a 99.7% production line yield rate using industrial vision AI. Suzhou isn't a city that relies on star companies and massive funding rounds to make headlines; it is the most solid "manufacturing base" in China's AI industry—which is precisely why it is undervalued.