在上海举行的世界人工智慧大会上，数百个仿生机器人成为全场焦点。尽管外观极度逼真，但大多数机器人在精心编排的展示之外仍然行动迟缓且僵硬，这凸显出虽然机器人的硬体躯壳建构已取得重大进展，但要开发出能自主思考的大脑仍然是一项巨大的挑战。

为了突破这项瓶颈，中国科技巨头如腾讯、阿里巴巴以及字节跳动等，正将发展重心转向「世界模型」。这些模型旨在超越现有的大型语言模型，试图赋予机器人理解物理世界并具备常识的能力，让它们能像人类婴儿一样，透过观察、行动与回馈来适应充满未知与不确定的环境。

中国在具身智能领域拥有独特的竞争优势，不仅受惠于其深厚的制造业供应链基础，该领域更被列为国家政策的重点发展方向。尽管专家评估世界模型要取得重大突破可能还需要数年甚至更长的时间，但中国正积极利用其丰富的硬体资源与开源策略，为后 ChatGPT 时代的人工智慧新竞赛做足准备。

At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, hundreds of humanoid robots became the center of attention. Despite their highly lifelike appearances, most robots remained slow and jerky outside of carefully choreographed demonstrations, highlighting that while significant progress has been made in building robotic hardware bodies, developing a brain capable of autonomous thought remains a massive challenge.

To overcome this bottleneck, Chinese tech giants such as Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance are shifting their focus toward developing "world models." Designed to go beyond existing large language models, these models aim to equip robots with a common-sense understanding of the physical realm, enabling them to adapt to unknown and uncertain environments through observation, action, and feedback, much like a human baby.

China holds unique competitive advantages in the field of embodied intelligence, benefiting not only from its deep manufacturing supply chain foundation but also from the sector's prioritization in national policy. Although experts estimate that major breakthroughs in world models may still take years or even longer, China is actively leveraging its abundant hardware resources and open-source strategies to fully prepare for the new AI race in the post-ChatGPT era.