Recently, Baiwang, a leading player in data intelligence, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with 01.AI, a unicorn company in the LLM space, in Hong Kong. Attending the signing ceremony were 01.AI Founder and CEO Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Co-founder Ma Jie, Baiwang Founder and Chairman Chen Jie, Baiwang CEO Fu Yingbo, along with senior executives from both sides.

The two companies announced a deep integration of Baiwang’s industrial data and scenarios with 01.AI’s capabilities in LLM deployment and implementation. Together, they will co-develop full-scenario LLM solutions to tackle the core challenge of the new era: how to make AI usable, useful, and user-friendly in enterprises. This partnership is seen by the industry as a strategic pivot to unlock new productive forces, igniting the “nuclear fusion” of industry and AI.

 

A Powerful Alliance: Fueling Industry with a Super AI Engine

“We are at a tipping point where AI is shifting from the lab to the frontline of industry. While LLM have surpassed human experts in general capabilities, creating tangible value in core business scenarios remains the biggest challenge,” said Fu Yingbo in his speech. In response, he laid out a pragmatic roadmap for Baiwang’s data intelligence strategy: “We don’t aim to be dreamers of AGI. Instead, we aim to be roadbuilders for industry.”

This insight is rooted in Baiwang’s ability to convert deep industry know-how into “agent DNA”—its core technical strength. Serving over 28 million enterprises, Baiwang has built a complete data chain across transactions, tax, and finance, processing over hundreds of billions of high-value, real-time industrial data points which can be considered as precious “fuel” for training industry-specific AI agents.

Earlier this year, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee predicted that 2025 will mark the breakout year for AI-first applications. As LLM inference costs drop dramatically and performance breaks past industrial thresholds, competition among LLMs is no longer about size, but about full-stack deployment—from infrastructure to applications. The arrival of DeepSeek demonstrated that China's open-source foundation LLMs are catching up with Silicon Valley’s leading proprietary LLMs. It also sent a strong signal to China's ToB enterprises. China’s traditional industries are vast in scale, feature complex industrial chains, and offer rich real-world application scenarios, providing enormous potential for LLM empowerment. Correspondingly, enterprise demand is shifting from questioning “whether to use AI” to focusing on “how to deeply integrate AI,” signaling that the “Industry + AI” landscape is entering a deeper phase.

However, enterprises still face three core pain points in adopting large LLMs: difficult deployment, complex application, and costly customization.

“Informed by industry analysis and client feedback, 01.AI is focusing decisively on lightweight, high-performance LLMs tailored for enterprise use,” said Ma Jie. “We’ve built the WanZhi One-Stop Enterprise LLM Platform, combining hardware and software to support secure, private deployment, scenario-specific customization, and agile development of AI applications. Our goal is to empower enterprises with a flexible, cost-effective LLM architecture that functions as their proprietary knowledge engine.”

Against the backdrop of LLMs entering a deeper stage of implementation, the partnership between Baiwang and 01.AI marks a new milestone in the deep integration of “Industry + AI” at a historic inflection point.

Rebuilding Business Civilization and Empowering the Smart Economy

“Make AI Work is the focus of 2025,” Dr. Kai-Fu Lee stated, calling for LLM to leave the lab and create real value across industries. The Baiwang–01.AI partnership outlines a clear vision: to co-develop full-scenario LLM solutions.

Leveraging Baiwang’s advantages in finance, logistics, e-commerce etc., and 01. AI’s strengths in LLM deployment and enterprise-level solutions, the two parties aim to jointly create vertical LLMs for key industries—making agents a standard feature of enterprise operations, significantly boosting efficiency and compliance.

Take the financial sector as an example. Traditional risk control systems often rely on manual data collection and analysis, which is labor-intensive and prone to human error. Baiwang’s proprietary risk control agent provides a breakthrough solution by integrating internal business data, industry metrics, and market signals to build dynamic, full-spectrum risk models. These solutions are already delivering value to Baiwang’s large enterprise client base.

Through its collaboration with 01.AI, the two parties will co-develop industry-specific financial LLM to build a dual-engine system for risk control and marketing, helping financial institutions provide personalized “one-to-one” services.

“At this pivotal moment for AI implementation at scale, Baiwang and 01.AI are not merely joining forces commercially. Instead, they’re co-creating a uniquely Chinese model for deep AI empowerment with data as the foundation, scenarios as anchors, LLMs as engines, and agents as the interface,” said Fu Yingbo.  

“This is more than a technological leap. It’s a reconfiguration of business civilization,” concluded Baiwang Chairman Chen Jie. “When 01.AI’s ‘super engine’ ignites Baiwang’s industrial ‘fuel’, we are setting the benchmark for real-world AI deployment, unleashing the ‘nuclear fusion’ of digital productivity.”