{"slug": "tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competition", "title": "Tuya Co-Founder Highlights Real-World AI Application Competition", "summary": "Tuya Smart co-founder Alex Yang told the Summer Davos forum that China's rapid AI adoption is driven by a vast user base, openness to new technology, and societal aspiration for progress. Yang highlighted Tuya's AI applications in smart home, energy, and robotics, including real-time pricing data from over 800 European utilities.", "body_md": "Per Tuya's press release and Summer Davos coverage, **Alex Yang**, Co-Founder, COO, and CFO of **Tuya Smart**, spoke at the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (Summer Davos) in Dalian on June 23-25, 2026. Yang participated in sessions including \"China's Lobster Fever,\" \"AI and Future Growth,\" and \"Owning the Interface: Strategy in the Age of AI Agents,\" and described drivers of China's rapid AI adoption. Per Tuya, Yang said, \"First, the country has a vast number of users developers who are actively exploring and building AI applications. Second, both individuals and businesses have demonstrated a remarkable openness for exploring and testing new technologies. More fundamentally, the strong aspiration across society for development and progress has become a powerful intrinsic driver of AI innovation.\" Reporting by Stocktitan adds that Yang highlighted Tuya's AI work across **smart home**, **energy**, and **robotics**, and noted use of real-time pricing data from more than **800 European utilities**.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competition", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competi-b7dd064a", "published_at": "2026-06-26 04:55:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 06:09:47.353714+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "ai-startups", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Tuya Smart", "Alex Yang", "Summer Davos", "Dalian", "China"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competition", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competition.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competition.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tuya-co-founder-highlights-real-world-ai-application-competition.jsonld"}}