On October 22, the 2026 iFLYTEK Global 1024 Developer Festival opened at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. iFLYTEK Chairman Liu Qingfeng released a number of AI innovation achievements, including the end-cloud integrated iFLYTEK Spark X2.6, the Xingchen TaaS platform, the Spark speech foundation large model SparkAudio 1.0, and Spark embodied multimodal interaction technology.
At the developer ecosystem conference held alongside, the iFLYTEK Open Platform released a new-generation human-machine interaction solution for the first time, officially launching the agent collaboration platform Agent OS and a development workbench for the Agent ecosystem, driving AI from technical capability to business implementation and making Token truly a productive force across all industries.
End-cloud integrated Spark X2.6 released, developer ecosystem flourishing
Solving real-world problems with AI depends on the continuous evolution of model capabilities. The newly released Spark X2.6 expands the context window to one million Tokens, and the Spark X2.6-4B on-device model is simultaneously open-sourced. The newly introduced Spark large model end-cloud integrated collaborative architecture brings in a critique-model-based end-cloud routing collaborative training mechanism, raising end-cloud routing accuracy from 81.2% to 96.1%, further balancing on-device response speed with cloud-side comprehension capability.
iFLYTEK Chairman Liu Qingfeng delivers the release on site
The Spark speech foundation large model SparkAudio 1.0 was also debuted. Trained on fully domestic computing power, the model achieves capability upgrades in speech recognition, simultaneous speech translation, and real-time interaction. Through innovations such as a semi-supervised audio encoder, dynamic segmented end-to-end modeling, and dual-paradigm collaborative decoding, measured results show a 20% improvement in performance, a 15% reduction in response latency, and a 60% decrease in invocation cost, further enhancing machines' ability to understand sound.
Only a flourishing ecosystem can bring a great future for artificial intelligence. Currently, the iFLYTEK Open Platform has 11.87 million developers, and the number of enterprise developers for large models grew 104% year-on-year. The 2026 iFLYTEK AI Developer Competition attracted 52,120 participating teams from 15 countries and 351 cities, a record high in scale. Since the Spark X2.5-4B on-device model was open-sourced, it has been downloaded 2.56 million times, ranking among the top four on-device models globally. With model capability, development tools, and an open ecosystem continuing to work in synergy, AI is advancing from simple Q&A to complex task processing, letting more Tokens create business value.
Human-like, universal, and easy to use: new-generation human-machine interaction solution released
Targeting scenarios such as homes, robots, and public spaces, the iFLYTEK Open Platform launched a new-generation human-machine interaction solution for the first time, advancing smart hardware interaction upgrades around three directions: human-likeness, universality, and ease of use.
iFLYTEK Open Platform Chief Technology Officer Liu Kewei presents the developer ecosystem release
In natural interaction, an end-to-end model fused with microphone arrays strengthens spatial acoustic perception, helping devices locate sound sources and identify conversation partners; combined with an end-cloud collaborative architecture, it achieves instant on-device response and deep cloud-side understanding. The WallEX smart space solution, through open IoT protocols and the Harness platform, supports multi-brand, multi-device linkage, with local control response as fast as 700 milliseconds.
In complex environment adaptation, the iFLYTEK robot super brain platform integrates panoramic cameras and circular microphone arrays, supporting interaction by up to 5 people simultaneously, and even under -10dB strong noise conditions, speech recognition accuracy still reaches 90.1%. The AIUI multilingual interaction platform covers 8 major regions including Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, supporting seamless communication in more than 40 languages. In addition, the platform offers dedicated fine-tuned models for scenarios such as children's companionship, elderly care, and tutoring, among which the children-specific interaction large model achieves a recognition accuracy of 95%.
iFLYTEK 1024 product experience officer Yin Jing demonstrates multilingual interaction on site
To lower the development barrier, the platform also provides hardware and software products such as a voice interaction board, a multimodal interaction board, Spark Super Brain Board 2.0, and embodied interaction modules, and through reference designs and complete-machine solutions, accelerates products from prototype verification to mass production.
Debuting Agent OS, letting enterprise agents run a "relay race"
Addressing the needs of complex business division of labor, cross-system collaboration, and process automation, the iFLYTEK Open Platform released Agent OS for the first time and, together with APA, built an enterprise-grade Agent capability system. Agent OS is responsible for organizational collaboration and task scheduling, while APA handles business process automation execution, driving AI from model invocation to end-to-end business closed loops.
Agent OS organizes collaboration among employees, agents, and business systems through "scenario packages," optimizing skills and processes with organization-level context engineering and continuous evolution mechanisms. Practice data shows cross-system collaboration efficiency improved by 90%, with over 75% of processes able to flow autonomously.
iFLYTEK GuideX product manager Zhou Hanyue demonstrates APA on site
APA supports business personnel in encapsulating daily operations such as filling out forms, checking inventory, and initiating approvals into reusable skills via screen-recording operations or natural language descriptions, with agents invoking them on demand and connecting to business systems such as ERP and CRM.
In industry practice, at China Energy, the iFLYTEK procurement intelligent review accuracy reached 97%; in overseas practice with e-commerce KA clients, the "super performance optimizer" drove a 40% increase in per-capita managed ad account spending scale and a 50% increase in ROAS.
Invoking 700+ AI capabilities with a single command, the Open Platform leads the way in Agentization
For Agent development, the iFLYTEK Open Platform launched the XFYUN CLI development workbench, where developers can invoke more than 700 AI atomic capabilities and more than 200 agent adaptation capabilities with a single command, simplifying capability integration, authentication, and environment configuration.
The XFYUN CLI development workbench allows invoking 700+ AI capabilities with a single command
AIUI Code lets developers describe requirements and have Agents invoke plugins to assist development; the interaction R&D digital employee supports updating robot configurations via voice commands, enabling installation and configuration, instant updates, and scenario adaptation.
On-site demonstration of the interaction R&D digital employee
GuideX undergoes a hardware-software integrated upgrade, packaging real-world physical-world needs from "scattered procurement" into combinable, deliverable, and sustainably operable integrated solutions. Among them, AStudio, as a new-generation all-scenario AI productivity workbench, handles demand intake. GuideX, as an integrated interactive intelligence platform combining Agent, virtual human, and multimodal capabilities, takes over the entire subsequent process starting from configuration and assembly. In the on-site demonstration, a customized airport butler was created for the airport scenario, with GuideX and AStudio collaborating to complete the configuration and adaptation of the interactive application. In addition, the platform builds reusable Agent resources around Skill, MCP, connectors, CLI, and industry knowledge, driving AI application development toward standardized, engineered, and scaled delivery.
Xingchen TaaS debuts, making Token a real productive force
As large model applications accelerate in deployment, how to truly convert Token consumption into business value has become key to industry development. The newly debuted Xingchen TaaS platform builds a full-chain system from model capability to industry solutions, opening a new stage of the collaborative evolution of Token and Agent.
The underlying layer relies on the Xingchen MaaS platform, supporting the Spark large model and a variety of open-source large models; the middle layer, through model scheduling, agent engine, knowledge engineering, tool orchestration, and runtime governance, makes Tokens serve business needs more precisely and efficiently; the application layer covers scenarios such as simultaneous translation, digital employees, office efficiency, knowledge Q&A, and intelligent marketing, and provides products and solutions for industries including enterprise services, finance, healthcare, education, and energy.
This means developers no longer need to build complex technical systems from scratch, and enterprises no longer have to remain at the stage of purchasing tokens and calling models; instead, they can gain application capabilities oriented toward real business needs. Tokens are integrated into real business processes even as they are consumed, so that every token call drives a business goal and completes a task, allowing solutions to truly play a role in high-value scenarios across thousands of industries. Let tokens not idle, and let value be visible.
From model breakthroughs and interaction upgrades to agent collaboration and full-chain development and delivery, the iFLYTEK Open Platform is continuously connecting models, tools, agents, and industry knowledge, working hand in hand with developers to bring AI innovation achievements to thousands of industries. In the future, the iFLYTEK Open Platform will continue to join hands with the broad community of developers to jointly build an open and prosperous AI industry ecosystem, letting technological innovation create broader social value.
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