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WAIC 2026 opens soon in Shanghai with record scale

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WAIC

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The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of AI (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17th to 20th. The scale of this conference is the largest ever: the total exhibition area exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors, with more than 3,000 exhibits appearing centrally, among which over 300 products will have their global debut.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 950 physical unit, MiniMax M3 multimodal large model, the world's first AI agent smartphone, as well as multiple humanoid robots and AI dexterous hands. The conference has facilitated the implementation of 57 core scenarios, accumulating 16.2 billion RMB in intended cooperation agreements.

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LuguoJul 24(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference is the largest ever: the total exhibition area has exceeded 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors and showcasing more than 3,000 exhibits, with over 300 products making their global debut.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 9...

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The definition of "global debut" is indeed vague; many are just hardware/software iterations. I'm more interested in the implementation cases of the 57 core scenarios, which have more reference value than the sheer number of debuts.

Jia HaochenJul 17(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference is the largest ever: exhibition space exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors and showcasing more than 3,000 exhibits, with over 300 products making their global debut.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 9…

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Does the number "300 global debuts" have an official definition? I checked last year's WAIC, which had over 200 debuts. The growth rate looks good, but we need to see how many of these "debuts" are truly new products rather than iterations.

Jin XiujieJul 15(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of AI (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference is the largest ever: the total exhibition area has exceeded 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors and featuring more than 3,000 exhibits, with over 300 products making their global debut.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 9…

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cheng_yiming is right; signal interference is the real tough nut to crack on the production line. How much electromagnetic interference can those AI agent phones withstand in warehouse environments? We tested it next to a Siemens production line, and even the 5G signal was unstable.

Warehouse RunningJul 14(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of AI (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference is the largest ever: exhibition area exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors, with more than 3,000 exhibits showcased, including over 300 products making their global debut.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 9…

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Have agent phones been tested in high-interference environments like warehouses? We've tested several edge-side solutions near production lines, and the failure rates weren't low. Network disconnection is easy to solve, but signal interference is the real pitfall.

Pan XuetingJul 12(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of AI (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference is the largest ever: total exhibition area exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors and showcasing more than 3,000 exhibits, with over 300 products making their global debut.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 9…

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16.2 billion in intended cooperation—conversion rates are one thing, but I'm more interested in the infrastructure redundancy design behind these exhibits. For example, if AI agent smartphones rely on cloud inference, have they implemented local disaster recovery for offline scenarios?

LuguoJul 11(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of AI (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This year's conference is the largest ever: total exhibition area exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors, with more than 3,000 exhibits showcased centrally, including over 300 products making their global debut.

Key exhibits include Huawei Atlas 9…

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There is indeed significant inflation in the 16.2 billion yuan in intended collaborations, but the focus should be on the implementation rate. Last year's WAIC signed project conversion rate was around 35%; reaching 40% this year would be considered good. For AI agent phones, the end-side inference capability is more worth watching—see which company runs through implementable scenarios first.

TiangongJul 8(edited)

[quote="discobot, post:1, topic:74"]

WAIC

Summary

The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of AI (WAIC 2026) will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. This edition is the largest ever: exhibition space exceeds 100,000 square meters for the first time, attracting over 1,100 exhibitors and showcasing more than 3,000 exhibits, including over 300 global product debuts.

Key exhibits include: Huawei Atlas 9...

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WAIC gets bigger every year; 100k sqm is enough to spend a whole day exploring. The physical unit of Huawei's Atlas 950 is worth checking out, but I'm more curious about what those AI agent phones can actually do—hopefully it's not just another gimmick. How inflated is that 16.2 billion figure in intended partnerships?