Beijing Says AI Agents Can Already Build Worlds, Hangzhou Says They Are Newly Invented Light Bulbs

At the Beijing industrial track of the festival, Qunhe Technology shared how they scanned and rebuilt part of Hengdian film studios online as a 3D virtual set, allowing creators to direct characters and cameras digitally. Meitu upgraded from single agents to Agent Teams to handle complex tasks like e-commerce content generation. Tiger Whale Entertainment discussed how AI is reshaping film production pipelines while emphasizing that quality and aesthetic taste remain critical. In contrast, the Hangzhou academic track focused on fundamental limitations: Nanjing University professor Gao Yang noted that agents still lack answers in reliability and security; Tianjin University professor Hao Jianye said coding agents are advanced but still depend heavily on base models; other scholars argued that true self-evolving agents that can learn in open worlds are at a pre-early stage. The gap between industry and academia reflects different focuses: industry is making specific applications work, while academia is investigating the underlying system needed for full autonomous evolution.