In late March 2026, the vitality of spring began to seep through the willow tips along the banks of the canal in Changzhou. Amidst this ordinary spring scene in Jiangnan, the 2026 Wu Wenjun AI Innovation Conference and the 15th Wu Wenjun Award Ceremony for Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology, hosted by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, came to a successful close.

At this moment, the global AI competition has entered a new phase. Across the ocean, the United States launched the "Genesis Project" in an attempt to harness AI for accelerating scientific research; the United Kingdom rolled out the "AI for Science Strategy" to vie for a leading position in the global AI science revolution; domestically, the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations have pushed the "AI+" initiative to new depths. The wave of enthusiasm for large language models has yet to subside, while emerging tracks such as embodied intelligence and AI for science have quietly risen to prominence.

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