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WAIC 2026 Forum 'From LLMs to Agents: Toward Autonomous Intelligence' Releases Multiple Achievements
A dedicated forum at WAIC 2026 released multiple achievements covering agent technology standards, industry ecosystem development, and research progress. The forum brought together domestic and international scholars and industry leaders to discuss the evolution from large language models to autonomous agents.
From July 17 to 20, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) took place in Shanghai. Among its core sessions, the 'From Large Models to Agents: Toward a New Era of Autonomous Intelligence' forum unveiled multiple achievements spanning technical standards, industry platforms, and frontier research.
This year's WAIC set a record as the largest in the conference's history, with over 100,000 square meters of exhibition space across three venues — the World Expo Exhibition Hall, Zhangjiang Science Hall, and West Bund. More than 1,100 enterprises showcased over 3,000 exhibits, including over 300 AI products making their global debut.
The forum saw participants reach consensus on key technical pathways for the evolution from large models to autonomous agents. Released outcomes included agent system standardization frameworks, industry application roadmaps, and proposals for open ecosystem development. Multiple companies also demonstrated their latest agent capabilities alongside the forum.
Agents emerged as one of the most prominent themes across WAIC 2026. From StepFun's STEPX Neo agent phone and Tencent's WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy series to Baidu's 'Dazi' agent winning its own top prize, virtually every major exhibitor positioned agents as their primary showcase narrative.
The forum also addressed agent system security, cross-platform interoperability, and practical deployment challenges of LLM-driven agents. StepFun jointly released the 'Next-Generation Agent System Security White Paper' with Shanghai AI Lab on the sidelines of the forum, proposing a framework of trustworthiness, visibility, controllability, and reversibility.
The transition from large models to agents is moving from technical concept to product reality. The multiple achievements released at this forum provide the industry with reference standards and collaboration frameworks, reflecting the collective push of China's AI sector in the agent direction.
Why it matters
The forum's achievements provide crucial standardization and collaboration frameworks for the agent ecosystem, signaling China's AI industry acceleration from model capability to product-level agent deployment.
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