On July 17, at the 2026 WAIC site, Wang Jian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Zhijiang Laboratory, and founder of Alibaba Cloud, said that until now, understanding of artificial intelligence is still at a very superficial level; when scientific data actually becomes the basic element of a big model, a scientific revolution comparable to the Galileo era has only just begun. On the scene, Wang Jian went back to a brief history of the development of artificial intelligence: when many people talk about big models today, they subconsciously equate to big language models, but few people remember that the term “basic model” wasn't actually coined until 2021. And text processing is actually the easiest first threshold for artificial intelligence to cross.

On July 17, at the 2026 WAIC site, Wang Jian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the Zhijiang Laboratory, and founder of Alibaba Cloud, said that until now, understanding of artificial intelligence is still at a very superficial level; when scientific data actually becomes the basic element of a big model, a scientific revolution comparable to the Galileo era has only just begun. On the scene, Wang Jian went back to a brief history of the development of artificial intelligence: when many people talk about big models today, they subconsciously equate to big language models, but few people remember that the term “basic model” wasn't actually coined until 2021. And text processing is actually the easiest first threshold for artificial intelligence to cross.