AI SHANGHAI 1.5 debuts at the CIIE News Center, upgrading from "Perceiving Shanghai" to "Connecting Shanghai"

As the ninth China International Import Expo is about to open, a new "AI + City Life" display route has been added to the CIIE News Center — a large screen, a team of robots, and several smart plush toys that can hold a conversation, making many Chinese and foreign journalists stop in their tracks. AI SHANGHAI, the Shanghai city communication intelligent agent for international visitors coming to and staying in Shanghai, made its debut at the CIIE with version 1.5 and is serving the CIIE. In July this year, AI SHANGHAI 1.0 was released at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, becoming a 24-hour city companion for friends from around the world coming to Shanghai under five keywords: "trustworthy, boundless, multilingual, ever-changing, collaborative." More than three months later, led by the Information Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and continuously jointly developed by Jiefang Daily·Shanghai Observer and Donghao Lansheng Group, it has completed the version leap from "perceiving Shanghai" to "linking Shanghai." The AI SHANGHAI booth on the first floor of the CIIE News Center. Photo by Jiefang Daily reporter Hai Sha'er. Serving the CIIE, all questions answered in one stop. In the News Center of this year's CIIE, the AI SHANGHAI display and experience area makes a brand-new appearance. The exhibition revolves around AI SHANGHAI version 1.5, the 16 ecosystem partners of AISH COMMUNITY, and specially invited AI technology enterprises, becoming a major new highlight of this year's Shanghai cultural display and performance. For journalists, it is more like an interview assistant on call at any time: CIIE locations, exhibitor information, event schedules — just ask the large screen and the answer appears. The CIIE knowledge base of Jiefang Daily·Shanghai Observer has been embedded into the AI SHANGHAI foundation, and the AI SHANGHAI CIIE special topic also features a QR code entrance to the CIIE Bureau's "AI CIIE," making it convenient for journalists to jump and use with one click. AI SHANGHAI 1.5 homepage interface. First floor · AI YOUNG Life. On the first floor of the AI SHANGHAI display area, there is the "AI YOUNG Life" booth. The exhibition area focuses on Gen Z and, together with enterprises such as Bailian Group, Boke City, FOLOTOY, Huanzhi Nuonuo, Haimati, Shuban, and easybot, brings a batch of artificial intelligence application scenarios into the News Center. Robots greet visitors, smart plush toys strike up conversations, and Chinese and foreign journalists can get hands-on with interactions after just a couple of steps, touching the youthful side of Shanghai's AI industry. Second floor · AISH BOX. As a scenario-based facility of version 1.5, AISH BOX will also become the main presentation form for AI SHANGHAI at various display sites in the future. After playing through the motion-sensing interactive game "AI Shanghai" knowledge quiz and the NFC character-collection interaction in turn, visitors remember CIIE knowledge and Shanghai city stories, and take Shanghai cultural and creative products away with them. AISH BOX — trendy play is the shell, linking is the core. AI SHANGHAI and its ecosystem partners want to do one thing: make AI and this city perceptible, approachable, and playable. AISH LINK: open entrances, accessible everywhere. AI SHANGHAI was open from the moment it was born. Version 1.5 further opens the standardized open entrance AISH LINK to external platforms. Online, entering from platforms such as the "Shanghai Release" WeChat official account, IP SHANGHAI, and CNS, there is the same AI SHANGHAI. Offline, about 500 NFC points are being rolled out; the first point has already landed at Yuyuan Garden Metro Station, with an intelligent touch screen set up on site and an NFC tap-to-connect marker. New partners such as China UnionPay Nihao China and the East China Branch of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology will also join one after another. All parties will jointly build and operate around "culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions" scenarios, and will continue to roll out AI SHANGHAI entrances at international transportation hubs, international consumer business districts, international exhibition venues, international community living circles, and international exchange and networking activities, making city information within reach wherever it is needed. Capability upgrade: smarter Q&A, a more solid foundation. Q&A is placed front and center. Entering any page of version 1.5, the first thing you see is the dialogue entrance. Languages have been expanded simultaneously, adding French, German, Russian, and Korean beyond Chinese and English, allowing more users coming to Shanghai to ask questions in their native languages. Services are packed into the conversation. The original "Life" channel has been revamped into a "Services" plaza, where guidance for handling various city services is available as soon as you ask; the "Discover" channel launches "one-click ask AI," enabling instant follow-up questions about culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibition information; the PC web version is also online simultaneously. The foundation sinks deeper. Version 1.5 continuously optimizes the construction of the city knowledge base system, precipitating information into searchable knowledge assets, making answers more evidence-based and laying a more solid foundation for subsequent city information services. The theme word of 1.0 was TOUCH — perceiving Shanghai; 1.5 has changed to LINK — linking Shanghai. When Q&A appears on every page, when the entrance is embedded in every platform, AI SHANGHAI is no longer just a dialogue box in a phone, but a city capability that can be summoned at any time. From TOUCH to LINK, letting AI truly link life.