Xuhui, Shanghai: Currently, there are more than 1,000 artificial intelligence companies in Xuhui, and another 600 will be attracted this year.
Shanghai held a press conference for the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Conference on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Wei Lan, deputy mayor of Xuhui District, Shanghai, said that a large-scale model ecological cluster will be built. As the venue for the first World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Xuhui has attracted top institutions such as Pujiang Laboratory and Qizhi Research Institute, as well as leading companies such as Tencent, Alibaba, and SenseTime. It has also cultivated 10 unicorn companies such as Wuwen Xinqiong, Minimax, and Jieyuexingchen. At present, Xuhui has more than 1,000 artificial intelligence companies. This year, we will attract another 600. We will continue to actively cultivate chain-leading companies in vertical applications, support high-frequency interactions and in-depth exchanges between upstream and downstream companies, and continuously expand the large-scale model industry chain and ecosystem.