In June 2026, the world will once again turn its attention to Dalian, China.
From June 23 to 25, the World Economic Forum’s 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions—commonly known as the Summer Davos Forum—was held in the coastal city of Dalian. Since its inception in 2007, the Summer Davos has become one of the highest‑level platforms for global political and business leaders to discuss cutting‑edge issues in economic growth. This year’s event brought together more than 1,700 participants—including heads of government, CEOs of multinational corporations, leading academics, and leaders of innovative enterprises—from over 90 countries and regions, marking the highest level of participation and the broadest geographic reach in its history.

The theme of this year’s forum is “Scaling Innovation.” Against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown, trade disruptions caused by tariffs, and ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East that continue to weigh on energy markets, this theme raises a pressing question of our times: As technological breakthroughs proliferate, how can we ensure that innovative solutions move beyond the laboratory and pilot stages to deliver tangible benefits to every link in the global value chain?

The photo shows the main venue and the opening ceremony of the 2026 Dalian Summer Davos Forum. Photo source: Xinhua News Agency.

SIXUNITED Chairman Cao Yalian and Sales Center General Manager Ding Zhan attended this year’s forum, joining global industry leaders in multiple high-level dialogues centered on key topics such as AI industrialization, edge-side intelligence, and the restructuring of global supply chains.

Cao Yalian, Chairman of SIXUNITED

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From “Edge-Cloud Integration” to “Winning Through Ecosystem”: Chairman Cao Yalian’s Reflections on AI
This year’s Davos Forum sent a clear signal: the focus of AI development is shifting from technological breakthroughs to real-world industrial applications.

Over the past few years, large-scale models, computing power, and algorithms have continued to evolve, propelling AI into a phase of rapid development. Today, the global industry is increasingly focused on how to enable AI to deliver tangible value and how to scale the deployment of innovative breakthroughs.

This trend is in close alignment with Chairman Cao Yalian’s long-standing observations on the development of the AI industry.

“The Turning Point of the Times”: The Biggest Transformation in the PC Industry in a Century

“Traditional PCs have undergone a full‑scale evolution into AI‑native intelligent terminals, shedding their former identity as mere office tools,” says Chairman Cao Yalian. He believes the PC industry is undergoing the most profound transformation in a century—shifting from a monopoly of the single X86 architecture to a new ecosystem characterized by heterogeneous integration of CPU, GPU, and NPU, with multiple architectures coexisting. This assessment was rigorously validated by 2026: NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang announced in Taipei that PCs had entered the AG (Agent Generation) era, while Microsoft simultaneously unveiled Windows’ comprehensive support for Agent OS. In Chairman Cao Yalian’s view, this represents not an incremental technological upgrade, but a paradigm‑shifting revolution at the level of a “turning point of the times.”

Focusing on three core battlegrounds, we are building an “end-cloud integration” strategy.

Faced with shifting industry dynamics, Chairman Cao Yalian has anchored SIXUNITED’s strategy in three core strategic battlegrounds: Agent PC, high-end AI workstations, and cloud-based AI servers. He defines the company’s strategic positioning as “integrated edge-cloud, leading the world with intelligence,” and proposes building a distributed intelligent architecture that synergizes “cloud + edge + end”: Agent PC handles everyday intelligent interactions, AI workstations support local large-model inference and specialized computations, and AI servers form the cloud‑side computing foundation. Together, these components create a full‑range AI computing ecosystem spanning from the terminal, through the edge, to the cloud. This positioning goes far beyond the traditional boundaries of ODM manufacturers—“we are not merely a hardware ODM provider; we are the architects and implementers of a global, all‑encompassing AI computing ecosystem.”

“Tokens are the new commodities”: The Essence of Computing Power Competition

Cao Yalian has repeatedly cited NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang’s key insight from GTC 2026—“Tokens are the new commodity, and data centers are the factories that produce tokens”—and built upon it to outline his own industry analysis: at its core, competition in the AI sector is a battle for cloud‑based computing power; global computing resources are undergoing a profound reallocation. Based on this premise, he believes AI servers are entering a “decade of golden growth”—from entry‑level inference to mid‑range compute to high‑end training, full‑stack server capabilities will become the foundational infrastructure that determines the competitiveness of AI companies. This is also the fundamental rationale behind SIXUNITED’s decision to position AI servers as one of its three primary strategic battlegrounds.

Embracing the ISV Ecosystem: Unlocking a Second Growth Curve

At the business-model level, Chairman Cao Yalian put forward a key proposition: in the AI era, competition is shifting from “product‑centric success” to “ecosystem‑driven success.” His logic is clear and pragmatic—by embracing the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) ecosystem, building deep integration between hardware and software, and establishing a competitive moat that’s hard to replicate; and by empowering ISV partners and co‑building the ecosystem, expanding market boundaries and achieving exponential growth. “Embrace the ecosystem, co‑create the future”—in Chairman Cao Yalian’s strategic vision, this is not merely a business strategy but the core engine for unlocking SIXUNITED’s second growth curve, with the goal of driving AI‑driven digital transformation and constructing an end‑to‑end, integrated value‑delivery system.

AI’s “Scaled Implementation”: The Practice of SIXUNITED
Davos discusses “scale-up innovation,” and for SIXUNITED, the more important question is how to translate this trend into industrial practice.

In recent years, the company has continuously strengthened its full-stack capabilities around AI infrastructure, gradually establishing a comprehensive ecosystem that spans AI terminals, AI software platforms, and industry-wide partnerships.

Hardware Foundation: Comprehensive cross-platform coverage, serving as the “industry router” for AI computing power.

SIXUNITED has established a rare, industry‑wide hardware capability that covers all major platforms—Intel, AMD, ARM, and domestic processors such as Loongson, Zhaoxin, Phytium, and Unisoc. Spanning mobile, desktop, workstation, and server tiers, it has formed a three‑pronged core product portfolio of “Agent PC + AI Workstation + AI Server,” providing a hardware foundation that delivers computing power from the edge to the enterprise level across diverse scenarios.

Software Ecosystem: Three Proprietary Products Enable AI to Be “Out of the Box” and Ready to Use

Hardware is the skeleton, and software is the lifeblood. SIXUNITED has independently developed three major software products: the SixClaw multi-agent collaboration platform, AI Assistant 3.0, and the EAM enterprise intelligent agent management platform. SixClaw supports one-click deployment and skill customization, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for enterprises adopting AI; AI Assistant 3.0 features a built-in model store, supporting everyday use cases such as intelligent meeting minutes, AI programming, and image retrieval; and the EAM platform is tailored to enterprise-level needs, with a dedicated knowledge base, having already undergone scenario-based validation across multiple industries including law, finance, and education.

Ecosystem Collaboration: Breaking Down Silos, Shifting from Product‑Centric to Ecosystem‑Centric Success

Compared with a single-product strategy, SIXUNITED places greater emphasis on collaboration across the AI industry chain. The company continuously partners with chip manufacturers, algorithm firms, ISV partners, and the developer ecosystem to jointly drive innovation in AI solutions. It also keeps expanding application scenarios in sectors such as smart office, advanced manufacturing, education, and healthcare, helping AI transition from technology validation to large-scale deployment and building unique competitive barriers.

From the Davos Forum’s theme of “Scale‑up Innovation,” to Chairman Cao Yalian’s industry outlook of “edge‑cloud integration and ecosystem‑driven success,” and further to SIXUNITED’s large‑scale implementation across four dimensions—hardware, software, ecosystem, and use cases—these three elements form a clear logical chain: global consensus, corporate vision, and industrial practice are converging in the AI domain.

In 2026, SIXUNITED is fully committed to achieving its dual goals of 10 billion in revenue and 15 million units shipped. Looking ahead, the company will continue to follow the path of “edge-cloud integration and ecosystem collaboration,” deepening cooperation with global partners and driving large-scale AI innovation from concept to reality through continuous technological advancement and open industry partnerships.

As SIXUNITED strives for—“AI for Good, Global for All.”