People attend the AI Summit Budapest 2026 in Budapest, Hungary on Sept. 7, 2026. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)

　　"The gap between frontier AI creators and mere consumers keeps widening," Jin said, warning against "rules imposed by the few upon the many" and calling for AI governance based on shared responsibility, adaptive safeguards and human-centered development.

　　The summit also explored the growing use of AI in business and industry.

　　Presenting Alibaba Cloud"s latest AI developments, Huang Ye, general manager of Solution and Products at Alibaba Cloud Central Europe, said AI is evolving from simply understanding users" requests to completing increasingly complex tasks and end-to-end workflows.

　　Huang highlighted advances in model capabilities, human-AI collaboration and multimodal AI, as well as the growing role of open-source development. He said Alibaba Cloud has open-sourced more than 400 AI models, with more derivative models based on Qwen being used in areas such as education, healthcare and manufacturing.

　　Huang said Alibaba Cloud was already using AI to improve customer service and assist engineers with coding and product demonstrations.

　　People look at a humanoid robot at the AI Summit Budapest 2026 in Budapest, Hungary on Sept. 7, 2026. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua)

　　While opinions differed on how AI should develop and how it should be regulated, participants broadly agreed that closer international cooperation and wider access to AI technologies will be essential to ensuring that the technology benefits society.

　　The fourth edition of the summit was held across three venues with 15 parallel tracks, bringing together nearly 4,000 attendees.