HANGZHOU, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — The fifth Global Digital Trade Expo, co-hosted by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Commerce, ran from Sept. 23 to 27 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Themed "Meet the AI Future at the Digital Trade Expo," this year's edition covered 170,000 square meters of exhibition space, drew more than 2,000 exhibiting companies, and registered over 50,000 trade visitors from 163 countries and regions.

From quantum computing to space-based computing power, from AI agents to smart wearables, a cluster of technologies, products and solutions made their global, national or expo debuts, pointing to a faster convergence of artificial intelligence with digital trade, urban governance, consumer life and traditional industries.

Quantum Computing and Space Compute Take the Stage

In the digital trade hall, China's first full-stack, integrated large-scale neutral-atom quantum computer was unveiled. Hangzhou Atom Matrix Computing also launched its MatriQ quantum cloud platform, capable of building and stably operating defect-free arrays of up to 2,310 physical qubits.

Digital technology is also pushing past the ground and into orbit. Commercial space firm Oriental Starlink and space intelligence infrastructure company ADA Space jointly unveiled the "String of Space" computing constellation and a new generation of AI computing satellites, laying out a blueprint for a thousand-satellite distributed space computing power network for in-orbit AI computing, data processing and intelligent scheduling.

Space computing power is moving beyond pure data collection toward practical use. Paired with artificial intelligence, satellite data could serve urban governance, traffic management and natural resource monitoring.

An Urban Traffic Model Upgrades City Governance

Every Interaction used the expo to launch MUMO, a large model for urban traffic. It combines high-resolution satellite remote sensing imagery with ground traffic data to build a traffic flow simulation model, turning static satellite snapshots into a continuous, dynamic picture of how traffic actually moves.

In practice, MUMO can help traffic authorities rehearse plans and assess their results. For key intersections and congested corridors, traffic police can simulate green-wave schemes in advance and quantitatively compare queue lengths and road capacity across options, informing how signal timing is set.

Fang Yi, chairman of Every Interaction, said the company will keep working with partners on applications of satellite data and space AI in areas such as traffic governance, moving urban traffic management from "global sensing and dynamic reconstruction" toward "scenario rehearsal and effect evaluation."

AI Glasses and Driverless Cars Reach Consumers

Artificial intelligence is entering daily life in more tangible ways.

Tesla's Cybercab, a driverless electric vehicle, made its Zhejiang debut at the expo. The model has no steering wheel, pedals or rearview mirrors; the cabin consists of two bench-style seats and a central touchscreen. It relies on neither lidar nor high-definition maps, instead using a perception array of eight high-resolution cameras paired with an end-to-end neural network for autonomous driving.

Smart wearables also had new arrivals. Rokid gave its second-generation AI glasses a global debut. Building on the first generation's photography, translation and payment features, the new model adds two-way translation and call translation, and supports active wake-up as well as custom wake words.

That marks a shift for AI glasses, from devices that answer only when asked to terminals that can read what a user needs and offer help unprompted.

A One-Stop AI Agent for Traditional Industry

The fusion of AI and industry was a defining feature of this year's expo.

Wensli Silk launched "Tiancheng 68," a one-stop AI agent aimed at small and medium-sized textile firms and entrepreneurs, linking AI design, AI marketing and AI production. The company says the tools can take a silk scarf from design to finished product in as little as two hours.

From product design through marketing to manufacturing, AI is shifting from a standalone assistant to a productivity platform that runs across the business, helping traditional firms cut the cost of trial and error and speed up product development and market response.

AI Agents Spawn a New Kind of Insurance

As AI agents move deeper into corporate operations, new demand for risk coverage is surfacing.

On Sept. 23, China's first insurance product covering cost losses from AI agent deployment was launched in the China Digital Valley exhibition area. Jointly offered by PICC Property and Casualty and Hangzhou Hi-Tech Innovation Group, it covers losses tied to software and hardware procurement, scenario build-out and team investment during a company's intelligent transformation.

The product effectively adds a risk buffer to the commercialization of AI agents, using tech insurance to share the uncertainty companies face with new technology and easing the decision-making hesitancy around deploying agents.

AI Moves From Demo to Deployment

This year's expo featured a digital trade theme hall, a digital trade innovation and integration zone, and dedicated sections for artificial intelligence, Silk Road e-commerce, smart mobility, digital entertainment and digital healthcare, with an emphasis on being "reachable, interactive and tradable."

From underlying infrastructure such as quantum computing and space computing power to urban traffic models, driverless vehicles, AI glasses and industrial agents, the expo laid out the full chain from AI research to real deployment.

As computing power, data, models and industry use cases converge further, artificial intelligence is positioned to produce replicable, scalable applications across more sectors, becoming a key driver of digital trade and of the upgrading of the real economy.