A glimpse of AI technologies at the WIC in N China's Tianjin

The seventh World Intelligence Congress (WIC), a major artificial intelligence (AI) event in China, kicked off on Thursday in north China's Tianjin Municipality, focusing on topics such as intelligent connected vehicles, artificial general intelligence and brain-computer interfaces.

China's AI industry is making steady progress in technological innovation, industrial ecology and integrated application, with the scale of its core sectors reached $72.5 billion in 2022, an increase of 18 percent year on year, according to China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

The WIC exhibition featured technologies and products related to generative AI, 5G plus industrial internet. Nearly 500 enterprises participated in the exhibition, including 350 intelligent technology enterprises and 51 research institutions and universities, according to the WIC.

The exhibition presented music, literature, art and other fields through AI, 3D, metaverse and other technologies to break time and space restrictions, allowing participants an immersive experience.