The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) opens in Shanghai on July 17 and runs through July 20, featuring the world's first AI agent phone, though the company behind it was not named by Tang Wenkan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization. Huawei will display its Atlas 950 SuperPoD computing cluster, which packs 8,192 Ascend NPU cards into a single deployment, after its global unveiling at MWC Barcelona earlier this year. This year's exhibition space tops 100,000 square meters for the first time, with more than 1,100 companies and over 3,000 exhibits, including upwards of 300 products making their global debut. Officials say AI-enabled phones and computers are set to overtake non-AI devices in China this year. MiniMax will show its M3 multimodal model, StepFun is bringing an agent operating system, and Dongfang Suanxin is debuting a near-memory computing 3D chip.