People visit the 2025 World Internet Conference (2025 WIC) Light of Internet Expo in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 6, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]

HANGZHOU -- Artificial intelligence (AI) will expand faster across application scenarios to achieve comprehensive empowerment in China, alongside a rising user penetration rate and deepening industrial integration, an industry report said Saturday.

AI will not only transform people's daily behaviors but also become a core driver of intelligent upgrades within the real economy in the country, according to the China Internet Development Report 2025 released by the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies during the ongoing 2025 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit, held in east China's Zhejiang Province.

The report noted that over the past year, China's AI technologies have made continuous breakthroughs, supported by upgraded computing infrastructure.

Meanwhile, AI has also been applied across various scenarios in the country with accelerated, deep integration into manufacturing, services and other sectors, and has become a powerful engine for high-quality development.

The Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies, on the same day, also issued the World Internet Development Report 2025, which highlighted the rapid advances in AI technology worldwide.

The reasoning capabilities and knowledge density of large language models have improved remarkably, while multimodal large models have emerged as the leading edge of AI research, said the report, adding that embodied intelligence has gained increasing attention from major economies, with applications expanding in fields such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and elderly care.

However, the report also warned of the risks and challenges posed by AI, noting that AI governance is a core topic of global cyberspace governance.

The report advised countries to strengthen exchanges and cooperation on the basis of respecting sovereignty and development interests to ensure that AI develops in a safe, reliable and sustainable manner that benefits humanity.

The two reports have been released annually since 2017 as outcomes of the WIC Wuzhen Summit.

This year's summit kicked off on Friday and will run through Sunday.