# data engineering

As Models Mature, Chinese AI Firms Put Data — Not Parameters — at the Centre of Industrialisation

At the 2026 AIGC Developers Conference, Hangzhou Cangjie Intelligent’s CEO argued that industrial AI’s bottleneck is data, not models. Companies that build scalable, task‑structured, reusable data systems will gain the competitive moats required to deploy AI in manufacturing, robotics and embodied systems.