China's open-source AI push gains momentum at WIC Wuzhen Summit
At the physical workspace of ModelScope, China's largest AI open-source community, a single developer can do the work of a team. The 2026 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit opens in Zhejiang Province, east China, November 3, 2026. /VCG Li Guanghui is among the 249 solo entrepreneurs at this workspace in Hangzhou, the capital city of east China's Zhejiang Province, 95% of whom are working on AI projects. With AI assistance, he built a hotel-booking mini-program entirely on his own, completing in eight months a project that would typically take a team of five to 10 people a year to finish.
