2026 Wuzhen Summit Opens With Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Open Source

People's Daily reported that the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit opened on November 3, 2026. The summit is centered around open source, joint construction, and shared governance to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace, addressing artificial intelligence development and digital governance. At the Light of the Internet Expo on November 2, more than 30 embodied artificial intelligence robots from entities including AgiBot, UBTECH, Unitree, and CAS Fifth Century interacted with visitors. The exhibits included a bipedal humanoid robot that autonomously plays both badminton and table tennis with humans, alternating between forehand and backhand strikes. Ahead of the gathering, DeepSeek announced plans to open source its internal inference framework and release its codec components, following earlier open-source releases of large model compilation tools and inference operator libraries. Beyond the opening ceremony and main forum, the summit agenda scheduled 27 sub-forums covering embodied robotics, spatial intelligence, green low-carbon technologies, and cross-agent interoperability.