The first Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition held its award ceremony, with Qwen AI Glasses winning first prize

As artificial intelligence moves from the laboratory to the shelf, the shape of consumption is being redefined. On the morning of October 25, the award ceremony for the first Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition was held at the Shanghai West Bund International Convention and Exhibition Center. The competition attracted more than 800 high-quality projects to register, and many of the winning projects have already entered daily life. It is reported that the competition set up three major "AI New Consumption" professional tracks and one "AI New Power" special track. The "AI New Consumption" professional tracks revolve around three major directions—new products, new scenarios, and new models—covering fields such as smart terminals, smart wearables, home life, culture, tourism and education, brand marketing, and the globalization of consumer enterprises. The three tracks uniformly set up an application group and a maker group to discover mature application results and early-stage innovative projects by category. The competition received a total of nearly 800 valid registered projects, of which about 450 were in the three "AI New Consumption" tracks and about 350 were in the "AI New Power" special track. At the ceremony, the "AI New Power"·WTCC YOUNG Award, the "AI New Consumption" Innovation Practice Award, the Innovation Nomination Award, the Excellence Award, the Third Prize, the Second Prize, and the First Prize were presented in turn. The reporter noted that many of these projects had already entered the daily lives of citizens before the competition. The first-prize-winning "Qwen AI Glasses" project partnered with the Chinese time-honored brand Wuliangcai to create a national flagship store on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai, bringing AI glasses into professional eyewear retail and fitting scenarios. During this year's Bund Conference, Shanghai's first "AI Glasses City Companion Tour" pilot landed in Dayuyuan. Participants wearing Qwen AI glasses set off from Yuyuan Mall, passing through the City God Temple, Yuyuan Garden, time-honored brands, and new consumption stores, all the way to the BFC Bund Finance Center and the Fosun Foundation, linking commentary, navigation, translation, and consumption services into a city roaming route where one can "ask while walking." Also already in operation before the competition was the third-prize-winning "SenseMart OS Retail Physical Operating System" project from SenseTime Shanhui. Its "Shaomaigou" robot convenience stores have been put into actual operation in places such as the Xuhui Riverside, with an average of only 0.2 to 0.3 staff per store and a fastest order completion time of 15 seconds. The team found that when robots truly enter community consumption scenarios, they face many problems beyond algorithm accuracy. For example, the team found that the robot's failure rate in grasping glass bottles was relatively high in the morning. One reason was that when the air cooler had just been turned on, condensation on the bottle walls made them slippery, so they turned on the machine in advance to let the water droplets evaporate. Such details can only be noticed during actual business operations. At the award ceremony, the "AI + Consumption" Competition-Exhibition Joint Development Partner Program was officially released. Representatives of joint development partners, including the Shanghai Modern Service Industry Federation, China Construction Bank, China Telecom, West Bund Group, Sequoia China, SenseTime, StepFun, Shanghai Jipaile Technology, and Shanghai Large Model Company, took the stage to jointly release the partner program. The competition was hosted by the Shanghai Modern Service Industry Federation and Shanghai West Bund Development (Group) Co., Ltd., and was linked with the WTCC West Bund International Technology Consumption Carnival, using city-level traffic, real consumption scenarios, and a world-class innovation ecosystem to give back to the competition, building a growth loop of "competition discovery—WTCC validation—space incubation—market amplification," jointly promoting the competition-exhibition linkage of "AI + Consumption," and further driving the competition's results from professional circles to public view, from short-term selection to long-term operation, and from project display to commercial implementation.