BCIwiki (bciwiki.com) — According to WABO, the final and award ceremony of the 2026 Global Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest took place in Hangzhou's Future Sci-Tech City, China, on October 10, 2026. WABO won first prize in the startup group for its project to build a human neural intent model. Founder and CEO Xingzhi Zhang accepted the award on behalf of the team.
Citing contest information from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), WABO says the CAAI-organized competition opened in July and received 340 applications. Following preliminary selection and semifinals, 20 teams advanced to the final: ten in the startup group and ten in the growth group. Each group awarded one first prize. Fourteen judges from academia, investment institutions, and industry evaluated technological advancement, commercialization prospects, business viability, and team capabilities.
WABO says its entry examines how human goals, judgments, and control intentions can inform machine action as AI agents and robots move into the physical world. The company is developing the WABO Neural Intent Model (NIM), combining EEG, EMG, and task context to explore how high-level human intent can be interpreted under specific task conditions and connected to actions by intelligent devices.
The company describes the model as work in development. The first prize is a project-evaluation outcome and does not establish reliable intent recognition or validated intelligent-device control performance.