The two-day 8th Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) Conference opened on Friday, bringing together global researchers to discuss cutting-edge AI, international collaboration and young talent development.
During the event, the world's first general-purpose world base model — the Wujie Physis-v0.1 — was unveiled. The model acts as a core engine for AI to comprehend the real physical world, fundamentally reshaping how AI perceives and reasons about physical reality.
"All scenarios in the physical world obey the same laws of physics. For such a base model, what it learns is actually physics by nature. Eventually, it can be applied to interactive environments, embodied AI control, including the embodied brain, and even scientific predictions just like what we have demonstrated — essentially serving any downstream application scenarios that need a grasp of physical reality," said Chen Boyuan, director of the Behavioral World Model Center at BAAI.
The academy also introduced a taxonomy for world models. Similar to the levels of autonomous driving, the system categorizes world models based on their ability to understand the physical world. The system helps sort out and define the many different technical approaches to world models that exist today.
World's first general-purpose world foundation model unveiled in Beijing
World's first general-purpose world foundation model unveiled in Beijing
Two political leaders from Taiwan have spoken out against recent remarks by Lai Ching-te, who claimed that United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 pertains only to China's representation at the UN and has "nothing to do with Taiwan."
Their comments came at the Sixth Cross-Strait Exchange Seminar held on Friday in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Lai, at a separate event, asserted that Taiwan is a "sovereign independent nation," drawing criticism from Taiwan's Labor Party President Wu Rongyuan and New Party Chairman Wu Cherng-dean.
"The resolution 2758 of the United Nations General Assembly fully reflects and solemnly affirms the one-China principle. Apart from that, a series of international legal documents after World War II, including the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, have clearly stated that China has sovereignty over Taiwan. What Lai said has distorted the legal principles and historical facts. Now, the Taiwan separatists are colluding with external forces and going against the motherland. That’s really ridiculous and will only turn out to be a chess piece of others," said Wu Rongyuan.
"Such a Taiwan separatist. Lai tries stubbornly to distort the facts, but what he says and does cannot change everything. There is no dispute that Taiwan is part of China. The compatriots on the Chinese mainland and in Taiwan all know that. So now we are not talking about whether we should reunify the country or not. We are talking about starting to study how to achieve reunification and the great rejuvenation of the nation for the people. I have full confidence that this is the trend and we should work together in this direction," said Wu Cherng-dean.
Both party leaders reiterated that there is only one China and that reunification remains an irreversible trend.
Taiwan party leaders criticize Lai Ching-te for distorting historical facts
