The 2025 Global Developer Conference opened in Shanghai on Friday, gathering more than 100 developer communities from around the world to discuss large language model industrialization solutions and promote AI application.
Themed "Shaping Infinite Possibilities Globally", the event will run through Sunday, featuring the debut of multiple open source large language models.
"It not only assists developers in code generation and does it automatically, but also serves as an automatic assistive tool for office workers to handle spreadsheet and text tasks. Additionally, we have also released an open-source AI software toolchain, hoping it can lower the costs of AI production," said Yang Fan, co-founder and president of SenseTime, an AI software company based in Hong Kong.
The current trend in the AI industry is about training lower-cost, better-structured and integrated language models with stronger capabilities for processing text, image and video materials, according to insiders.
In the meantime, more businesses have adopted an open-source strategy to speed up the building of their own developer ecosystems and application ecosystems.
"We're introducing two models to the open-source community. One is an integrated speech generation and comprehension model, which is skillful in understanding emotions and dialects. The other one is a text-to-video generation model. I think it will bring better experiences to content creators in many fields," said Li Jing, vice president of StepFun.
In December 2024, Shanghai announced a comprehensive plan aimed at developing a world-class AI industry ecosystem by 2025. The plan, officially named the Implementation Plan for AI "Molding Shanghai", consists of 22 measures.
Its goals include surpassing 100 Exa Floating Point Operations Per Second (EFLOPS) in computing power, developing approximately 50 industry-specific open corpus demonstration applications, launching three to five innovation accelerators for large models, and establishing several collaborative empowerment centers and vertical zones for model training.
The city had registered 60 large generative AI models as of 2024.
"Last year, the scale of our AI industry reached 450 billion yuan (about 62 billion U.S. dollars), up 7.8 percent. This year, we will focus on application. Shanghai will continue enhancing computing power with a goal of adding 100,000 PetaFLOPs of computing power by the end of the year to improve public computing service platforms," said Pan Yan, director of the AI office of the Shanghai Economy and Information Technology Commission.
2025 Global Developer Conference opens in Shanghai
