Listening to Biteye's n Stories of WAIC (Part 2) 6、 What really makes money at WAIC is setting up street stalls After wandering around WAIC, the only scenes where one can truly see making money are probably these few—— Three or four middle-aged men and women carrying burlap bags sneaked into the embodied intelligence pavilion on the second floor of the main World Expo venue. They don't belong to any booth, they shuttle and sit in the crowded exhibition aisle, taking out toy car sized "machine dogs" from their burlap bags. To be honest, that looks exactly like the robot dog GO2 from Yushu Technology. A man wearing a linen T-shirt with dark skin and a sly expression caught my curious gaze. He waved to me and said, '300 yuan, 300 yuan each.'. He is disdainful of making any introductions, because WAIC is a golden signboard, and all objects appearing here are assumed to be cutting-edge and high-tech. Unfortunately, the wholesale price of a 300 yuan robotic dog at Yiwu Small Commodity Market may not exceed a few tens of yuan. It is not fundamentally different from our childhood toy cars and is still a mechanically driven creation. And the reason why they are the most profitable in WAIC is because they don't need to spend a lot of money to purchase a booth, and can take advantage of the opportunity to market like fish in water. I waved my hand and declined the man's "kindness", and soon more people gathered around. However, compared to companion robots that start at tens of thousands of yuan, perhaps a 300 yuan robotic dog is more practical? ——Alan 7、 By the side of the sunken boat, a thousand sails pass by: Where would you look for AI information now? This time at the Xuhui West Bund exhibition hall, I saw the differences between different content platforms. B stood on the booth and erected a wall, on which he wrote—— Bilibili has become the most AI savvy content community in China, with the "most concentrated AI interested users" and over 140 million users watching AI content on Bilibili every month. There are still a few interesting data points ⬇️ ·More than 80% of users who watch AI related content are born after 1995. ·On average, millions of A-related videos are produced every day. ·The annual playback time of AI related content has increased by nearly 50% year-on-year. ·The top 10 Al creators in terms of fan base across the entire network are all Bilibili UP owners. ·The submission volume of AI related content has increased by 130% year-on-year. On the other hand, there is Zhihu on the left diagonal. Zhihu's booth is not small, but there is almost no exhibition related to itself. After looking at it, Zhihu focuses on curating information about Nubia beanbag smartphones, as well as a row of Zhihu answerer Vibe coding projects displayed on the Mac. The staff at the booth were busy teaching people how to use Worktudy for simple Vibe coding at the large round table. I asked the staff of Zhihu using data from Bilibili and posed the following question: "What other advantages does Zhihu have in content distribution for AI KOLs? ” The staff fell silent for a moment and told me that perhaps some founders of large model companies would still be active on Zhihu. AI is a high knowledge density industry that aims to disseminate content to the public, requiring a high level of information and a low level of understanding. In the early and middle years of the Internet, Zhihu connected these two ends by introducing people and created a successful knowledge community. But now, the way AI information is produced is undergoing changes. As long as you learn slowly enough, you can skip learning The big models and agents are updating faster and faster, and the products that were still discussed yesterday may have already been iterated today. People are no longer satisfied with reading a long answer with a complete structure and rigorous deduction, but hope to see the actual test as soon as possible. How stable is AIGC video generation? Is a certain agent once again being 'nested'? Different needs will lead to different forms of media. The loneliness of Zhihu is not its problem. ——Alan 8、 However, robots may not be far away As soon as I entered the WAIC main venue, I saw the GD01 of Yushu Technology in front of me. It was placed in the most prominent position at the entrance, and almost everyone passing by would stop to check in and take photos. At that moment, there was a strong illusion that the future world from childhood movies suddenly appeared in reality. Yushu has frequently appeared in the public eye in recent years. From robot performances on the Spring Festival Gala stage to various large-scale technology exhibitions, Yushu constantly refreshes the public's imagination of robots. And this time WAIC, unsurprisingly, became one of the most watched booths on site. Up to the second floor, from a distance, the most crowded place is the exhibition booth of Yushu Technology. If you don't raise your phone very high, it's even difficult to see what robots are showing inside the booth. In the center of the booth, two robots are performing boxing. They keep moving, punching, dodging, and their movements are seamlessly connected. In the past, the robots we imagined were often set in movies with massive mechanical bodies, slow movement speeds, and stiff motion feedback But the scene in front of me overlaps somewhat with the science fiction movies I watched when I was a child. Robots are no longer machines that operate according to fixed programs, but have begun to possess the ability to move close to humans. Especially when watching them perform continuous actions, it is obvious that the future in the movie may not be as distant as imagined. As robots become more flexible and intelligent, will more and more industries be replaced by robots in the future? Repetitive labor, logistics handling, home services, and even some hazardous environments in factories may gradually be taken over by robots. Standing in front of the Yushu robot, you will feel for the first time that the future in the movie may have arrived. ——Changan