At the 2026 Bund Summit, Ant Lingbo CEO Zhu Xing told APPSO that robot deployment still faces capability and cost issues, limiting large-scale rollout in scenarios like convenience stores. He introduced Lingbo's embodied-intelligence focus, including LingBot-World, LingBot-Video and LingBot-VLA 2.0 models and deployments at Guoda Pharmacy, and shared views on foundation model value and generalization challenges.
At the Bund Summit on Sept. 11, 2026, Zhu Xing, CEO of Ant Lingbo, said the company focuses on building a universal brain for robots, offering closed-source foundation models and toolchains while partnering with robot body makers. He announced a first funding round targeting 1.5 billion yuan, with a second round planned by year-end, and argued that data is the core barrier in embodied AI: OpenAI's GPT-6 is a useful tool but does not solve the data problem. Ant Lingbo prioritizes data quality distribution and acquires data through customized collection.
On September 11, 2026, Ant Group unveiled APASS at the AI Payment Forum of the 2026 Inclusion·Bund Summit. Built on the Know Your Agent concept, APASS establishes two trust chains for identity and behavior, providing identity registration, continuous verification, intent security and trusted attestation. It has been integrated with over 1 million agents, 110,000 of which are active, covering 442 service providers.
On September 9, Envision's "Tianji" physical AI weather model debuted at the Shanghai Outer Temple Conference. It ranked in the top tier alongside Google WeatherNext 2 on WeatherBench 2, and led on wind speed and precipitation metrics. It also placed first in both the China National Meteorological Center demonstration program and the State Grid AI load forecasting competition.
Wang Nan, research manager at IDC China enterprise software market, shared the latest research on AI data infrastructure at the 2026 Inclusion·Bund Summit insights forum, forecasting that China's AI data infrastructure market will grow at a 37.7% CAGR from 2025 to 2030, reaching $73.8 billion by 2030 and $154.8 billion by 2035.