The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization has highlighted the city's comprehensive advantages in artificial intelligence development. At a press conference held by the Shanghai Municipal Government on the morning of the 7th, Commission Director Tang Wenkan responded to media inquiries regarding Shanghai's AI industrial ecosystem.
Recent listings of multiple AI enterprises in Shanghai, coupled with the city's push to accelerate breakthroughs in humanoid robots and other innovative products, have drawn attention to Shanghai's industrial competitiveness. Director Tang identified four core strengths underpinning Shanghai's AI sector: collaborative industrial clusters, metropolitan-scale application scenarios, large talent pools, and a complete industry-finance integration system.
Tang outlined three key focus areas for ongoing optimization. First, Shanghai will strengthen its industrial chain by ensuring abundant computing power for advanced models, sufficient data corpora for applications, and adequate chip supply for products. The city currently hosts nearly 10% of China's total computing power, operates the nation's first public data corpus service platform, has registered 138 large AI models, and achieved breakthroughs in multiple intelligent computing chips. Annual subsidies exceeding 1 billion yuan are allocated through computing power vouchers, data corpus vouchers, and model vouchers, supporting initiatives like "Model Speed Shanghai" and AI4S "Hundred Teams Hundred Projects."
Notably in embodied intelligence, nearly 40 types of humanoid robots have transitioned from laboratories to daily applications, with Shanghai Zhiyuan's humanoid robot shipments ranking first globally last year. Second, Shanghai will enhance innovation factor supply through proximity-based collaboration where "upstream and downstream partners are just upstairs or downstairs." The city is developing "Model Speed Spaces" and "Model Power Communities" offering millions of square meters of industrial space in Zhangjiang and Xuhui districts. Leveraging 60 billion yuan in national AI funds and 22.5 billion yuan in Shanghai's AI mother fund alongside over 100 billion yuan in social capital, Shanghai is accelerating AI talent cultivation through training programs and establishing national AI application pilot bases for healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.
Third, Shanghai will foster an open ecosystem enabling global intellectual resonance and frontier innovation alignment. As a field dominated by youth, Shanghai provides efficient services including an international AI open-source community and youth entrepreneurship funds, attracting over one-third of overseas returnees who prioritize Shanghai for career development. The city will host high-level platforms like the World AI Cooperation Organization and Global AI Innovation Governance Center, while continuing its 9th annual World AI Conference and the China Household Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo on March 12th at Oriental Hub to showcase global smart consumer products.
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