Take AI to the front lines! 36Kr walks through WAIC to help you understand the truest direction of AI in the entire industry in 2026!

From July 17th to 20th, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Conference on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence concluded in Shanghai. Along the Huangpu River, heat waves surged together with crowds of people. With the theme of "Intelligent Partners, Creating the Future Together", this conference was held in three locations and four pavilions at the World Expo, Zhangjiang and West Bund. As the annual artificial intelligence industry observation window, the key signal left by WAIC 2026 is not the scale of the exhibition itself, but the change in the focus of the AI ​​narrative: technology display is retreating to the background, and real scenarios, system delivery and business value are pushed to the front. This is also the third consecutive year that 36 Krypton’s “Krypton Talks about the Future” has entered the WAIC scene. In the past three years, the AI ​​industry has experienced a shift from model racing to application trials. Parameters, lists and demos once defined industry popularity; by this year, more companies have begun to answer a more specific question: how AI enters business processes, how it collaborates with people to complete tasks, and how it can be continuously used in real scenarios. Based on such industry changes, this year’s “Krypton Future” content main line is “bringing AI to the front line.” The live broadcast room went deep into the exhibition hall and corporate booths, faced the founders, technical leaders and front-line product teams, and captured the on-site details of AI from solution to delivery. Roundtable conversations, on-site exhibitions, original short videos and real-time live broadcasts together constitute different aspects of this content record. At this year's WAIC site, AI is no longer just a model that can generate answers, but is becoming a system that can understand goals, mobilize resources, perceive the environment, and deliver results. From computing power bases and embodied intelligence to industry agents and consumer AI hardware, this year's WAIC focuses more on the same question: when AI comes out of laboratories and conferences, can it become an intelligent partner that is deliverable, reusable, and ultimately creates business value. 1. Direct roundtable dialogue: Headhunting Agent is newly released, and industry intelligence opens the era of collaboration. This year's "Krypton Future" launches a special vertical session on human resources, focusing on the digital pain points of the recruitment industry. Hewa Platform brings the headhunting industry agent - Domi to complete the world premiere, completely dismantling the vertical intelligence and reshaping the implementation path of the entire headhunting workflow.