Shanghai to host AI-related global conference

The 2025 Global Developer Conference, an artificial intelligent event for global developers to communicate, collaborate and innovate, will be held from Feb 21 to 23 in Shanghai, the Shanghai Commission of Economy and Informatization announced on Feb 7.

With a task to materialize AI applications in various scenarios and to promote the commercialization of AI, this year's conference consists of an opening ceremony, a young developers' exchange meeting, enterprise forums, and developers' activities.

The conference will focus on key technologies including large model, computing power, corpus, tools, and software platforms, according to the organizers.

The conference originated from the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, which has become an influential platform for AI cooperation and exchange. The 2025 conference looks to offer fine development environment for developers in the field of artificial intelligence and related sectors, facilitate integration of various industries and resources along the AI industry, empower developers, motivate the application of AI in various scenarios, strengthen the vitality of AI and related industries, and promote artificial intelligence's development in China and the world as a whole.

The 2024 conference attracted 35,600 developers to participate offline, and about 32 million developers online, official data showed.