World's first general-purpose world foundation model unveiled in Beijing

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World's first general-purpose world foundation model unveiled in Beijing

2026-06-13 17:24 Last Updated At：23:17

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.

South China's Friendship Pass registers sharp growth in value of imports, exports in January-June

The Youyiguan Port, or Friendship Pass, in Pingxiang City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region neighboring Vietnam registered sharp growth in the value of imports and exports in the first half of this year.

The port, China's main gateway to Vietnam, recorded a total import and export cargo value of 364.12 billion yuan (about 53.77 billion U.S. dollars) in the first six months, up 26 percent year on year.

The trade with ASEAN member states dominated the port's performance, with the value of imports from and exports to ASEAN countries reaching 361.4 billion yuan in the January-June period, a 26.2 percent increase year on year, accounting for 99.3 percent of the port's total cross-border volume.

Machinery and electronic products remained the main categories of imports and exports through the port.

To facilitate economic and trade exchanges between China and ASEAN countries, the local customs authorities have introduced a series of measures to simplify the customs declaration and clearance procedures, raising the overall inspection efficiency by 40 percent.