The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, themed "Open Source and Openness, Co-Building and Sharing," made open source the throughline of the event, with Ant Group showcasing 14 years of open-source achievements. OceanBase won the Outstanding Contribution Award and the health AI app Ant Afu won the Leading Technology Award; Afu surpassed 150 million users within a year of launch. DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen teams stressed open source's value in accelerating innovation and broadening access, with Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai saying AI can only become widespread through open source. Ant International completed a $1.2 billion Series A round, and OceanBase launched a Series A round targeting 2 billion to 3 billion yuan (approximately $300 million to approximately $450 million), while several institutions argued Ant's value should be reassessed with AI as the central thread. The summit opened on November 3 in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, and featured an open-source-themed ecosystem experience hall with interactive large-model products including Moonshot AI's Kimi and Zhipu Qingyan, plus Ant Group's open-source AGI and the LingBot robot calligraphy demonstration. Ant Group Senior Vice President Lao Miao said open source is "not just about making code visible" but a philosophy of replacing monopoly with collaboration. Ant holds more than 2,000 open-source code repositories, and its Bailing foundation model, LingBot embodied native large model and OceanBase