Seven AI startups from Beijing’s Zhongguancun and Shenzhen took the stage in Seoul this week, and the most striking takeaway was not a breakthrough model or a novel algorithm—it was the way they framed AI as an applied tool for filling gaps in time, labor, and organizational capacity. The presentations, ranging from medical diagnostics and healthcare assistants to digital humans, enterprise “AI brains,” generative AI workflows, and brain-computer interface (BCI) concepts, collectively underscored a shift that many markets are now grappling with: AI’s competitive edge is increasingly… Read more






