Pudong New Area globally promotes artificial intelligence industry ecosystem and releases a 2 billion seed fund.

Recently, during the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Pudong New Area held a global promotion meeting for the artificial intelligence industry ecosystem, focusing on key areas such as computing power, embodied intelligence, intelligent connected vehicles, intelligent manufacturing, and interdisciplinary fields where Pudong has advantages in its ecosystem, as well as strategic carriers such as the Molle Community, Zhangjiang Science Gateway, Zhangjiang Robot Valley, and Lujiazui Smart Port. The Pudong Artificial Intelligence Seed Fund was officially launched at the promotion meeting. The total size of the fund is 20 billion yuan, with an initial size of 5 billion yuan, focusing on seed round investments, and dedicated to investing in innovative talents and cutting-edge technologies. Through the seed fund's friendly and flexible investment mechanism, it is expected to help solve the survival problems of startup teams, realize the clustering of industries, and create an innovative and entrepreneurial atmosphere, thereby accelerating the landing and transformation of basic research and original innovation in artificial intelligence in Pudong, and helping to build a globally leading ecosystem aggregation area for specialized models.