This photograph taken on Nov. 6, 2025 exhibits the Award Ceremony of World Internet Conference Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology held in Wuzhen, east China’s Zhejiang Province. A complete of 17 worldwide initiatives on Thursday obtained World Internet Conference (WIC) 2025 Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology in east China’s Zhejiang Province, celebrating their breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields.(Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
HANGZHOU, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — A complete of 17 worldwide initiatives on Thursday obtained World Internet Conference (WIC) 2025 Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology in east China’s Zhejiang Province, celebrating their breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields.
The profitable initiatives span frontier fields equivalent to AI fashions, clever Internet of Things, embodied intelligence, and quantum computing. They embody Microsoft’s coding agent GitHub Copilot, Alibaba’s open-source foundational massive language mannequin Qwen, and the important thing applied sciences and functions of China’s BDS-3 satellite tv for pc navigation indicators.
The 2025 awards obtained greater than 400 legitimate submissions from candidates throughout 34 nations and areas.
Against the backdrop of an accelerated sci-tech revolution and industrial transformation, innovation has develop into a core power in catalyzing new industries, fashions and drivers, powering social progress, in accordance with Wu Hequan, chairman of the awards’ analysis committee and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Wu made the remarks on the awards ceremony, which was held within the historic water city of Wuzhen in Zhejiang.
Wu famous that by constructing a high-level worldwide change platform and pooling international knowledge for progressive improvement, the WIC Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology proceed to find and showcase world-leading sci-tech achievements, promote know-how for the frequent good, and contribute to constructing an open, inclusive, digital-intelligent world.
Inaugurated in 2023, the WIC Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology intention to acknowledge the 12 months’s most pioneering achievements within the web sector, and to foster international change and cooperation within the area of web know-how.
Thursday’s ceremony was a part of the 2025 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, which is able to open formally in Wuzhen on Friday and can run by means of Sunday. ■
This photograph taken on Nov. 6, 2025 exhibits the launch of the important thing applied sciences and functions of BDS-3 satellite tv for pc navigation indicators in Wuzhen, east China’s Zhejiang Province. A complete of 17 worldwide initiatives on Thursday obtained World Internet Conference (WIC) 2025 Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology in east China’s Zhejiang Province, celebrating their breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields.(Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
This photograph taken on Nov. 6, 2025 exhibits the launch of Alibaba’s open-source foundational massive language mannequin Qwen in Wuzhen, east China’s Zhejiang Province. A complete of 17 worldwide initiatives on Thursday obtained World Internet Conference (WIC) 2025 Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology in east China’s Zhejiang Province, celebrating their breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields.(Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)