Direct hit on WAIC | Tencent Vice President Lin Songtao: The gap in models is narrowing, but the gap in engineering is widening

From July 17th to 20th, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence are being held in Shanghai. Today, the Tencent AI Application Innovation Forum is being held. Lin Songtao, Vice President of Tencent, stated on the scene: "The gap between models is narrowing, but the gap in engineering is widening. The difference in mainstream model inference is actually becoming more and more widespread now, but whether we can translate it into enterprise productivity, and into personal and organizational efficiency, is a case that everyone is discussing."