The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) was held in Shanghai from July 26 to July 29, 2025. Geoffrey Hinton, the 78-year-old AI pioneer, who won both the 2018 Turing Award and the 2024 Nobel Prize, made his first visit to China. He delivered a keynote speech at the WAIC opening ceremony on the morning of July 26 and engaged in a high-level dialogue with Bo-Wen Zhou, head of the Shanghai AI Lab, that afternoon.