First Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition Awards Ceremony Held; Qwen AI Glasses and Wandou Chef Cooking Agent Unveiled

AI coaches that analyze sports data and tennis movements in real time, AI cooking masters with vast recipe collections that can also customize meals, AI glasses that proactively offer services through eye-tracking interaction... As artificial intelligence moves from the laboratory to store shelves and into daily life, outdoor coaching, family companionship, health monitoring... consumer formats are being redefined by rapidly evolving AI technology, and urban vitality is being continuously ignited. To thoroughly implement the national "AI+" action plan and seize new opportunities in intelligent consumption, the award ceremony for the first Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition was held this morning at the Shanghai West Bund International Convention and Exhibition Center. The city becomes a "testing ground" for innovation outcomes. To drive the transformation of Shanghai's AI advantages into consumption growth momentum, the transformation capacity of commercial enterprises, and the city's brand influence, the "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition set up the "AI New Consumption" professional track and the "AI New Force" special track. Among them, the "AI New Consumption" professional track revolves around three major directions—new products, new scenarios, and new models—covering rich fields such as smart terminals, smart wearables, home life, culture, tourism and education, brand marketing, and the global development of consumer enterprises, comprehensively uncovering innovative achievements in AI-empowered consumption upgrading. The "AI New Force" special track solicits innovative works in directions such as AIGC, AI + programming, and AI + green consumption from teenagers aged 6-18, discovering and cultivating future AI makers with innovative potential. Ge Ruihang, a fifth grader from the Primary School Affiliated to Shanghai No. 2 Normal School, won first prize in the AI + Programming category of the AI New Force finals youth group at the competition. Holding his certificate, he introduced his award-winning work—a public welfare item exchange mini program. "Put idle items you don't need up for exchange." If no one ever exchanges them, they can also be donated directly through the mini program. When it came to implementation plans, Ge also had a clear plan: "I want to first run a trial in one class, listen to my classmates' feedback after using it, and then promote it to the school step by step." At the event site, Shen Weihua, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and Wang Hua, Deputy Secretary of the Xuhui District Committee and District Mayor, jointly launched the construction of the Shanghai International Technology Consumption Functional Zone and the "AI + Consumption" competition-exhibition linkage, upgrading "AI + Consumption" from a single competition to an ecosystem, turning the entire city into a "testing ground" for innovation outcomes, and enabling every real user to touch the positive changes brought by artificial intelligence. Technological innovation outcomes reach consumption sites directly. The competition also linked with the WTCC West Bund International Technology Consumption Carnival, allowing technological innovation outcomes to reach consumption sites directly. As the world's first technology consumption event centered on "AI players," WTCC this year adopted the theme "AI for a Lifetime," providing high-level exhibition presentation and highly concentrated foot traffic for outstanding projects, establishing an "experience—evaluation—purchase—feedback" mechanism, and testing commercial value with real consumer feedback. In front of the booth for the Qianwen AI Glasses, which won first prize in the application group of the AI New Consumption finals, many visitors were experiencing the latest Qianwen AI Glasses product released in early October. "In the past, the capabilities of personal assistants mostly 'stayed' in the cloud or on a screen, but Qianwen AI Glasses step out of the screen to connect with the physical world, following people through various scenarios such as travel, learning, office work, consumption, and even payment," said Wu Jianjun, General Manager of Alibaba's Qianwen AI Hardware Products. We will also gather partners from all industries and continuously innovate and enrich intelligent services through the 'open platform' and 'skills plaza'—for example, by cooperating with whole-home intelligence, wearing the glasses allows you to complete control and configuration of your home. Qianwen AI Glasses not only support the execution of simple intentions, but also support users' colloquial settings for complex scenarios, and can combine user habits, task conditions, and content users have discussed with the glasses to preset the home environment in advance or proactively. Wu Jianjun said that the biggest innate advantage of AI glasses is that "you put them on without thinking in the morning and only take them off before bed." They see what people see and hear what people hear, and with eye tracking, they can perceive what you are looking at and what you want to do next. "What Qianwen Glasses wants to do is truly stuff the capabilities of a personal agent into every daily scenario." Even if you can't toss a wok or judge the heat, you can still eat a hot meal. In front of the booth, staff from Wandechu, a globally leading digital and intelligent cooking brand, were introducing the Wan AIChef ultra cooking agent to customers from Spain and Germany—seasonal ingredients and fresh quick dishes can be cooked in one step; users only need to put in pre-cut and prepared ingredients, and it can identify them and control the temperature by itself to finish the dish. The cooking agent paired with the wan AiOS dietary intelligence brain can not only use AI to identify ingredients, sense and control temperature, and cook intelligently, but also has functions such as health testing and dietary recommendations. It can analyze nutritional gaps based on cooking records, realize visual nutritional management, and intelligently recommend personalized recipes. "Our largest overseas market is the United States, and we also have distributors and partner stores in Australia, Singapore, and Europe," the staff member said. Wandechu has customized different interfaces and recipes on the agent according to the dietary habits and differences in ingredients and seasonings of various countries, gathering famous flavors from around the world into this 0.1-cubic-meter machine. "In the U.S. market, the product focuses on American meals and is paired with ingredients and seasonings commonly found in local supermarkets."