Global Artificial Intelligence Founders SummitGlobal AI Founders Summit

The Global AI Founders Summit serves as a premier, exclusive platform for AI entrepreneurs to engage in high-level dialogue. This forum is expected to bring together 500 key decision-makers from the AI industry, including representatives from AI startups, investment firms, industry leaders, and subject-matter experts, thereby creating a closed-door summit centered on in-depth exchanges, resource networking, and industrial collaboration.

This conference brings together AI founders, investment firms, industry leaders, and corporate decision-makers, under the theme “Choices and Breakthroughs: AI Founders’ Deep Industry Engagement and the Next Decade of AI,” to jointly explore the next phase of AI industry development.

Over the past two years, the global AI sector has witnessed unprecedented growth. From large-scale models and AI agents to robotics, AI chips, and enterprise-level AI applications, the industry is transitioning from a phase of “technological breakthroughs” to one of “commercial implementation.” IDC forecasts that global enterprise AI spending will reach US$940 billion by 2026 and could surpass US$2.1 trillion by 2029. Meanwhile, China is emerging as one of the fastest-growing key markets for AI worldwide.

For entrepreneurs, what truly determines future competitiveness is no longer solely technology. Rather, it hinges on securing industry partners, accessing capital, gaining entry into higher‑quality entrepreneurial ecosystems, and obtaining first-hand insights into industry trends—issues that this summit seeks to address.

This year’s forum has invited speakers spanning multiple core segments of the entire AI industry chain, including:

Large Models

Yan Junjie, Founder of MiniMax; Liu Debing, Founder and Chairman of Zhipu

AI Infrastructure

Zhang Jianzhong, Founder of Moore Threads; Chen Weiliang, Founder of Moxie Semiconductor; Shen Yichen, Founder of Xizhi Technology

Humanoid robot

UBTECH Chairman and CEO Zhou Jian will also invite representatives from investment institutions, industry service providers, and strategic consulting firms to jointly explore the latest trends in AI entrepreneurship, financing, and industrial development. The distinguished lineup of speakers spans key segments across the entire AI value chain, ranging from foundational models and humanoid robots to domestically developed GPUs and photonic chips. Bai Qiang, co-founder and vice president of iFLYTEK, as well as a founding partner of AbleGPT, will also attend to share practical insights on the convergence of AI and Web3, AI agents, and real-world industrial applications, offering entrepreneurs a cross-disciplinary perspective on innovation.

In addition to AI company founders, this forum has also brought together a group of well-known domestic investment institutions.

For example: Wu Shichun, founding partner of Meihua Venture Capital (who has long focused on cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, smart hardware, and advanced manufacturing, and is a well-known early-stage investor in China).

They will share insights on AI entrepreneurship, the financing landscape, industry trends, and future opportunities, offering startup teams perspectives from the capital markets.