On August 21st, the Engineering Lecture and the Fifth Edition of “Smart China” Series Forum, co-hosted by the journal Engineeringof the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and the journal Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (FITEE) of CAE, was held in Zhejiang University,. The forum, themed "AI+X: Empowering a New Era with Foundation Models",was broadcast live on multiple platforms, including Tencent, Sina, Baidu, and Bilibili, with more than 420,000 online viewers.

Text and Images by Chen Limeng, Chen Jingyuan, Kuang Kun, and Zhang Shengyu

Edited by Xu Min, Zhang Yirui

Contributed by CAAI Professional Committee of Education