Forum Registration Open | 2025 WAIC Qiming Venture Partners Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum: Venture Capital Enters AI Technology and Application Resonance Cycle
The forum will focus on the most promising AI sub-sectors today, featuring a rich agenda including portfolio company showcases, industry panel discussions, and investment insights from Qiming Venture Partners. It aims to help AI entrepreneurs and investors seize the explosive growth opportunities of the intelligent era and jointly drive the evolution and advancement of the AI industry.
The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) will take place in Shanghai from July 26 to 29. After seven consecutive years, it has grown into one of the most influential global gatherings in artificial intelligence, serving as "a barometer of technology, a showcase for applications, an accelerator for industry, and a forum for governance."
On the morning of July 28, 2025, Qiming Venture Partners will host the "Qiming Venture Partners · Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum — Venture Capital Enters a Resonance Cycle of AI Technology and Applications" at the Shanghai World Expo Center, the main venue of WAIC. Aligning with the conference theme "Intelligent Age: Shared Global Responsibility," this forum will focus on the cutting-edge dynamics of AI in entrepreneurship and investment, bringing together founders, investors, scholars, and industry leaders to explore the latest developments, frontier applications, and future trends of AI technology.
As intelligent technology becomes deeply embedded in social life, AI entrepreneurship and investment are facing unprecedented opportunities: AI model R&D has entered deep waters, AI Agents have emerged as a new productive force, multimodal interaction is elevating the AI experience, AI-native applications are accelerating deployment, and intelligent infrastructure is driving comprehensive enterprise intelligence. At the same time, technological evolution brings new challenges — where is the next stop for large language model development? How can AI break through critical bottlenecks in industrial deployment? Can startups escape the "shadow of giants"? Which business models can truly scale? Which domains harbor the next wave of disruptive entrepreneurial opportunities?
As one of China's earliest and most active venture capital institutions in AI and large language models, Qiming Venture Partners has been deeply rooted in the AI field for over a decade, consistently focusing on technological innovation and industrial application. Its portfolio covers the full AI industry chain — from underlying computing power and foundation models to multimodal models, world models, and AI-enabled vertical industry applications — helping multiple benchmark enterprises rise and witnessing AI's entry into an era of intelligent explosion.
This year's "Qiming Venture Partners · Entrepreneurship and Investment Forum — Venture Capital Enters a Resonance Cycle of AI Technology and Applications" will center on the most promising AI sub-sectors, covering large language models, multimodal models, world models, AI Agents, AI hardware, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, generative AI applications, AI-enabled industrial upgrading, AI infrastructure, and other frontier topics. Through portfolio company showcases, industry panel discussions, and Qiming Venture Partners' investment insights, the forum will help AI entrepreneurs and investors seize explosive growth opportunities in the intelligent age and jointly drive the evolution and takeoff of the AI industry.
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Sneak Peek at Highlights
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Comprehensive Showcase of the New AI Industrialization Landscape
In 2025, artificial intelligence is no longer confined to laboratories or single industries — it has permeated every corner of society, becoming the core engine driving global economic growth, industrial upgrading, and innovation and entrepreneurship. From large language models to intelligent agents, from data-driven approaches to autonomous decision-making, from point breakthroughs to full-industry-chain transformation, AI is reshaping every technology, every industry, and every business model. This forum will showcase the latest breakthroughs in AI Agents, AI-native applications, large language models and multimodal models, AI infrastructure, and Embodied Artificial Intelligence, as well as practical implementations in education, healthcare, intelligent hardware, and other industries.
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Leading Scholars on the Future of AI
The forum specially invites experts from top AI research institutions at home and abroad, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, MIT, and Stanford University. They will focus on the most cutting-edge developments and core challenges in artificial intelligence, jointly exploring new trends in AI development, including large language models, world models, AI Agents, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, and AI safety and governance.
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New Opportunities in AI Entrepreneurship and Investment
The AI era has brought unprecedented entrepreneurial and investment opportunities. From the perspectives of investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, the forum will deeply decode the most cutting-edge trends in AI, from disruptive technological evolution to business model innovation, from capital market dynamics to future value pools. Through multi-dimensional perspective exchanges and forward-looking analysis, it will help attendees identify opportunities, efficiently connect resources, and seize the opportunities of the AI explosion era.
Past Highlights
Qiming Stars | 4 Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio Companies Named to WAIC SAIL Award TOP30 List
Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners currently manages 11 USD funds and 7 RMB funds, with total assets under management reaching $9.5 billion. Since its inception, the firm has focused on investing in outstanding early- and growth-stage companies in Technology and Healthcare.
To date, Qiming Venture Partners has invested in over 580 high-growth innovative enterprises, of which more than 210 have gone public on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or exited through M&A and other means. More than 80 portfolio companies have become recognized unicorns or super-unicorns.
Many companies in Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio have grown into the most influential players in their respective fields, including Xiaomi (01810.HK), Meituan (03690.HK), Bilibili (NASDAQ:BILI, 09626.HK), Zhihu (NYSE:ZH, 02390.HK), Roborock (688169.SH), UBTECH (09880.HK), WeRide (NASDAQ:WRD), Insta360 (688775.SH), Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (603087.SH), Tigermed (300347.SZ, 03347.HK), Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB, 09688.HK), CanSino Biologics (688185.SH, 06185.HK), Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR), MicroPort EP MedTech (688617.SH), Sanyou Medical (688085.SH), Amoy Diagnostics (300685.SZ), Berry Genomics (000710.SZ), GenScript ProBio (688520.SH), Yuanxin Technology, Insilico Medicine, MediLink Therapeutics, LaNova Medicines, Zhipu AI, StepFun, Biren Technology, and others.