"Shanghai accounts for 10 percent of the nation's intelligent computing capacity, operates the country's first public corpus service platform, and has more than 150 registered large models," Chen told the summit that concluded on March 29. "By lowering the threshold for entrepreneurship, big ideas are unlocked in the city," he added.

A total of 394 AI companies in Shanghai, each with a designated annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($2.93 million) or above, saw their combined industry scale exceed 637 billion yuan in 2025, up 39.5 percent year-on-year, said Pan Yan, deputy director of the Shanghai Commission of Economy and Informatization.

As of Feb 28, as many as 149 generative artificial intelligence services completed filing across Shanghai, and the AI sector has become an important engine in driving the city's GDP growth, Pan added.