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Black technology unlocks new consumer trends - looking at Shanghai's cultivation of an "AI tropical rainforest" from the perspective of innovative vitality in the "model speed space"

2026-05-05   

Recently, the reporter walked into the "Model Speed Space" AI Black Technology Experience Center in Xuhui District, Shanghai. Here, there were scattered string less smart guitars, agile small robotic dogs, AI smart glasses, and many other products that attracted consumers to stop and watch. This innovative land rooted on the banks of the Huangpu River is linked by AI black technology, linking the industrial ecology and consumer market, and allowing journalists to truly feel the new trend of technology consumption. Look at this button, you can activate the recording function with just one click. ”At the experience center, the reporter tried on an AI smart glasses, which captured clear and vivid images with rich colors. Even if the head was shaken freely, the image remained stable and smooth. The staff of the experience center introduced that this pair of glasses can seamlessly connect with mobile phones and tablets. The transparent lens can clearly display text on the phone under natural light, and also has various practical functions such as teleprompter, music playback, navigation, real-time translation, etc. It can be a helpful helper for meetings, speeches, daily travel, and cross language communication. In addition to AI smart glasses, the interactive scenes in the experience center are also very popular. A companion robot has already automatically set up the chessboard, and after dropping a child, the robot immediately responds. The immersive gaming experience has not only attracted many parents and children, but also deeply loved by elderly consumers. In addition, the intelligent fitness area and smart home area are scattered in a staggered manner, gathering a variety of practical high-tech products in a space of hundreds of square meters, like a constantly updated display window of technological products. The experience center adopts a 'offline experience+online mall' model, with offline stores becoming popular check-in spots, while online malls break geographical limitations and lead the new trend of smart lifestyle consumption. ”The staff said. The 2026 Shanghai Municipal Government Work Report proposes to deepen the construction of innovative ecological demonstration zones such as "Model Speed Space" and "Model Power Community". As the first store in China, the establishment of the Experience Center in Xuhui District, Shanghai is precisely due to the mature artificial intelligence industry ecology here. Relying on the "Model Speed Space", the country's first large-scale model innovation ecological community, numerous high-quality projects and talents grow here, injecting a continuous stream of innovative vitality into the Experience Center. Shi Zhinan, Deputy General Manager of Z · Pilot, a company that has settled in "Model Speed Space", told reporters that their original intention is to discover more high-quality AI products that have been launched but not widely recognized by the market, so that more people can have close contact and experience AI black technology. During the visit, the reporter found that the popularity of the experience center is closely related to the ecological synergy of the "model speed space", and this close collaboration mode has also brought fruitful results to the field of embodied intelligence. Zhang Yun, Deputy General Manager of "Model Speed Space", introduced that without close ecological collaboration, an AI product from design concept to official debut would require more time and cost for the enterprise. The reporter learned that the number of companies registered in "Model Speed Space" has increased from over 100 in 2024 to over 300 currently, with more than 20 potential unicorn companies valued at over 1 billion yuan. Over 60% of Shanghai's large model filing companies are gathered here, forming a vibrant "AI tropical rainforest". In Zhang Yun's view, the linkage and cooperation between "Model Speed Space" and the resident enterprise Z · Pilot have achieved a two-way empowerment of "industry incubation+product landing", quickly transforming innovative achievements in the community into consumer products, and truly bringing AI technology into daily life. The vigorous growth of this fertile land of innovation cannot be separated from the careful cultivation and precise empowerment of Shanghai. The "Several Measures to Promote Innovative Development of the Service Industry in Shanghai" released in March 2025 clearly proposes to establish a certain scale of computing power coupons, model coupons, and corpus coupons every year to support start-up enterprises, innovative enterprise platforms, professional service institutions and other enterprises to use intelligent computing power, corpus and other resources at a preferential rate. Stepping out of the experience center, the reporter deeply felt that the innovative vitality of "Model Speed Space" is continuously overflowing, extending from one building to the entire city, promoting Shanghai to gradually become a highland for global artificial intelligence development. Data shows that by 2025, 394 large-scale artificial intelligence enterprises in Shanghai will achieve an industrial scale of over 637 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39.5%. Nowadays, Shanghai's embodied intelligence is accelerating its breakthrough, with humanoid robot shipments leading the world. Multiple intelligent chips have achieved key technological breakthroughs and are steadily moving towards the goal of building a world-class artificial intelligence industry cluster. In the future, "Model Speed Space" will deepen scene exploration and supply-demand docking, promote the upgrading of the "front store, back factory" model, launch an intelligent hardware incubation zone, rely on AI black technology experience center, West Coast International Technology Consumption Carnival and other platforms to create high exposure product launch platforms, optimize the "display experience feedback iteration" loop. During this visit, the reporter deeply realized that the "Model Speed Space" has already surpassed the physical meaning of innovation communities and become an incubator for new production relations - it breaks the traditional relationship between landlords and tenants in industrial parks, tightly weaving entrepreneurs, investors, technical experts, and scene demanders into a collaborative and symbiotic innovation network. With its amazing "Model Speed", it promotes Shanghai to lead the new trend of AI consumption and injects a continuous stream of innovative momentum into creating an artificial intelligence "Shanghai highland". (Looking into the New Era)

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