Count down to 30 days! The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference has these eight highlights

· The well-known large model products in China will appear, and the core development team behind them will also bring about the discussion of the large model path. At the same time, the large model team of the international leading enterprise will make a heavy appearance. The content will cover model categories such as large language models, visual large models, and multimodal large models, fully demonstrating the diverse ecology of large models empowering all walks of life.

2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference theme and main visual release.

The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference will be held in Shanghai from July 6 to 8, with the theme of "Intelligent Connected World, Generating the Future", focusing on the development of general artificial intelligence, creating a good innovation ecology, embracing the new era of intelligence, and discussing the new future of the industry. The conference will continue to play an important role as a "science and technology vane, application display platform, industrial accelerator, and governance hall", bringing together the world's top scientists, entrepreneurs, government officials, experts and scholars, international organizations, investors, start-up teams, etc., to build a world-class cooperation and exchange platform and jointly promote new opportunities for development.

The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned from the organizers of the conference on June 6 that the conference will be the main venue of the World Expo Center, and branch venues will be set up in Zhangjiang and Xuhui, and will be linked with Minhang, Putuo and other places. This year's conference presented eight highlights.

First, domestic and foreign celebrities gathered on the scene and staged brainstorming around ten major topics

This year's conference returned to the offline conference, and the total number of guests reached a new high. It is expected that more than 1400 domestic and foreign celebrities will attend, including Turing Award winners, Nobel Prize winners, representatives of international organizations, foreign academicians, entrepreneurs at home and abroad/CEOs, etc. The conference will focus on ten topics such as big models, AI for Science, general intelligence, computing power, metaverse, and talents, and stage wonderful brainstorming to share ideas with everyone.

Second, large models at home and abroad gathered and appeared, and star teams came to Shanghai for exchanges

The fire of ChatGPT has ignited the trend of artificial intelligence, and this year's conference will also gather domestic and foreign big model star teams and gather big coffee guests in the field of big models. The well-known large model products in China will appear, and the core development team behind them will also bring discussions on the path of large models. At the same time, the large model team of the international leading enterprise will make a heavy appearance. The content will cover model categories such as large language models, visual large models, and multimodal large models, fully demonstrating the diverse ecology of large models empowering all walks of life.

Third, the international "circle of friends" has been further expanded, and international enterprises and institutions have organized groups to participate in the exhibition

Openness brings progress, cooperation and win-win! WAIC actively cooperates with international organizations and strongly recommends international high-quality resources. This year, dozens of international institutions, international academic circles and foreign enterprises participated in the conference, including UNIDO, UNESCO, IJCAI, IEEE Metaverse Standards Association, British National Committee for China, Baden-Württemberg International Economic and Scientific Cooperation Agency (Baden-Württemberg International Economic and Scientific Cooperation Agency, BC Government of Canada), SWITCH Singapore Technology Innovation Week, Microsoft, Google, Intel, NVIDIA, OpenAI, etc., most of which are first-time participants. In addition, this year's conference will also promote international pavilions from Germany, Singapore, Australia and other international delegations such as Portugal, Brazil and Switzerland to participate in the exhibition, and the "circle of friends" of international cooperation of the conference will continue to expand.

Fourth, the exhibition space has been upgraded again, and 400 enterprises have released new voices in the industry

This year, the exhibition returned to offline, with a scale of 50,000 square meters, and the total number of enterprise exhibitors reached a record high, and it is expected to exceed 400. Up to now, more than 30 new products have been confirmed for the first exhibition, covering large models, chips, robots, intelligent driving and other fields. This year, for the first time, two major theme exhibitions will be set up, the theme exhibition area of "Chinese Industry Intelligent Industry Innovation Achievements Exhibition" and "Towards General Artificial Intelligence" will focus on AI innovation achievements and future industrial cluster layout, in addition, Zhangjiang, Xuhui and Minhang will be linked to create a variety of scene interaction and application display activities around the metaverse, AI+ART, robotics and other fields, allowing the audience to experience the charm of future technology more immersively and embrace the digital future together.

5. Deep integration of government, industry, academia, research and investment, and accelerated the landing of innovative achievements

Relying on the advantages of platform resources, the conference effectively combines the government, the market and society, and continuously promotes the industrialization of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements. By uniting Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, East China Normal University, Zhejiang University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Cambridge University and other top universities at home and abroad, gathering authoritative scientific research institutions such as Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai Zhizhi Research Institute, Pengcheng Laboratory, bringing together well-known investment institutions such as CICC, Shanghai Industrial Investment Fund, Linux Foundation, Qiming Venture Capital, etc., and inviting relevant representatives from all walks of life, Conduct in-depth exchanges on cross-border integration and show breakthrough results in the landing of innovative applications.

Sixth, the young wave swept the grand event, and the opening activities carnival day and night

The practice of artificial intelligence industry is inseparable from the support of talents, and WAIC has been committed to building a communication platform for the backbone of AI development. This year's conference focused on multi-level talent echelons such as strategic talents, leading talents, and young talents, and planned talent activities such as artificial intelligence youth pioneer forums, open source markets, book clubs, and talent recruitment fairs. At the same time, guided by the "SAIL Award", through brand events such as AIWIN World Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition, BPAA Algorithm Practice Model Competition, Hackathon, Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition of the Youth League and Municipal Committee, we will further gather outstanding young scholars at home and abroad, as well as leading talents and teams, and create a high-quality talent ecology.

7. Digital elements migrate across time and space, and the whole people share a feast of science and technology

The conference has been committed to using AI technology to hold AI conferences. This year's WAIC continues to deepen AI technology, continuously expand intelligent application scenarios, link Zhangjiang, Xuhui and Minhang venues, fully integrate a series of cutting-edge technologies such as AR, VR, MR, 5G, AIGC and digital humans, to create a digital press officer, an immersive experience, a time and space shuttle journey, as well as thousands of people and thousands of faces digital doppelganger, WAIC Metaverse Planet 2.0, smart venues, Digital applications such as Cloud Exhibition Platform 4.0; open offline landmark check-in points for tourists and citizens to experience and share, and achieve the ultimate immersive experience in the digital and real world.

8. Dig deep into the billion-level procurement demand and further improve the effectiveness of business empowerment

This year's conference deeply integrates enterprises, media and IP resources, links Australia, the United Kingdom, South Korea and other countries to set up more than 100 VIP visiting groups, and creates 20 closed-door industry matchmaking meetings and 30+ scene release activities, and will release tens of billions of procurement needs on site, providing exhibitors with a business cooperation platform for accurate docking. The conference further activated the resources of the conference and promoted the industry's "co-creation, co-construction, inclusion, co-governance, sharing and win-win" by creating supporting activities such as "magic box live broadcast room", "CEO financial afternoon tea", "treasure of town hall" and "3*24 live broadcast room".