On December 30, the 8th Earth Clone Conference (EC8), hosted by Beijing 51WORLD Digital Twin Technology Co., Ltd., grandly took place at InterContinental Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Hotel.
During the main forum, Li Yi, Founder, Chairman and CEO of 51WORLD, reviewed the development journey of the Earth Clone Program. He delivered an in-depth sharing on the latest technological progress and product portfolio of the Program’s fourth stage — “AI & Earth”, as well as two new AI-native platforms tailored for the company’s 2030 vision. This marks that the Earth Clone Program has officially entered a brand-new AI-driven era.
01 Vision-Driven Development: Building a More Efficient, Safer and Better World
The EC8 conference features two significant milestones. First, it was held at the same venue as the 4th Earth Clone Conference, inheriting the original aspiration and consistent mission of the initiative. Second, the conference coincided with 51WORLD’s official listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, a landmark moment for the company.
At this pivotal turning point, Li Yi emphasized in his keynote speech that 51WORLD has always been a vision-driven technology enterprise. He revisited the year 2017, when the vision of the “Earth Clone Program” was first proposed.
Since its founding, 51WORLD has launched the Earth Clone (EC) initiative. Committed to building a realistic, complete and permanent digital twin world, the company aims to make the physical world more efficient, safer and better.
Based on in-depth industry insights, 51WORLD divides the earth cloning system into five core elements — buildings, roads, vegetation, water bodies and terrain — and five developmental stages: static world, dynamic world, semi-simulated world, full-simulation world, and ultimate digital twin world.
To date, 51WORLD has completed the first three stages of static, dynamic and semi-simulated world construction, and has established fundamental cloning coverage of core elements including “people & buildings”, “vehicles & roads”, and “water & cities”. The initiative has fully entered the fourth stage: the full-simulation world (AI & Earth). Guided by this long-term vision, 51WORLD will accelerate the development of an independent and controllable industrial ecosystem.
02 AI & Earth Product Matrix
The fourth stage of the Earth Clone Program coincides with the global upsurge of next-generation AI technology, which is triggering profound transformations across all industries. Keeping pace with technological trends, 51WORLD continues to explore the integration boundary between digital twin and AI, unifying simulation algorithms, spatial intelligence and industrial know-how into an integrated technological system.
At the conference, Li Yi officially unveiled 51WORLD’s brand-new product matrix and core technological breakthroughs developed for the fourth stage of Earth Clone and the new AI revolution.
Most notably, 51WORLD launched its self-developed 6th-generation digital twin base platformAES6 and the 6th-generation digital twin developer platformWDP6. Li Yi pointed out that AES6 serves not only as an advanced digital twin infrastructure, but also as an essential gateway to spatial intelligence. Built on the AES6 underlying architecture, WDP6 significantly lowers the development threshold for integrated digital twin and spatial intelligence applications.
In addition, Li Yi showcased a series of cutting-edge spatial intelligence applications, including AIC Intelligent Assistant and GIM Geological Intelligent Model Platform.
In the field of intelligent driving, Li Yi systematically disclosed the technical evolution roadmap of SimOne, 51Sim’s intelligent driving simulation platform, and launched the latest version SimOne 3.8. As the most stable and user-friendly version to date, it greatly improves simulation accuracy and credibility.
He stated that intelligent driving is undergoing a paradigm shift from rule-driven and data-driven models to world model-driven intelligence, with simulation standing at the core of this industrial transformation.
Furthermore, 51Sim is set to release SimOne 4.0, which integrates 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) world models to form a closed-loop industrial chain of “data generation – scenario construction – simulation verification – model training”. Driven by powerful computing capabilities, it enables large-scale generation of high-quality simulation assets and data resources.
Beyond empowering intelligent driving, SimOne serves as a universal underlying platform for the large-scale training and verification of Physical AI, laying a solid foundation for the commercial implementation of robotics and embodied intelligence in the physical world.
03 Two Core AI-Native Platforms for the 2030 Vision
With only five years remaining until the 2030 Earth Clone vision deadline, Li Yi announced that 51WORLD will launch two flagship AI-native products: Clonova.AI for spatial intelligent interaction andAperdata.AI for embodied intelligent data, aiming to build a truly realistic, complete and permanent digital earth.
These two AI-native platforms concretely interpret the core value and far-reaching significance of the Earth Clone vision for industries and individual users.
Clonova.AI Spatial Intelligent Interaction Platform empowers hundreds of millions of users with immersive global exploration capabilities, enabling smarter and more intuitive interaction with the digital world.
Aperdata.AI Embodied Intelligence Data Platform is dedicated to helping robots enter and operate in the physical world in a safer and more efficient manner.
Aperdata.AI provides massive multi-type synthetic data resources. Adopting the “virtual trial-and-error + physical execution” model, it supports comprehensive and efficient simulation training for intelligent robots across diverse and segmented scenarios in a low-cost, zero-risk and highly restored virtual environment, effectively eliminating potential operational safety hazards.
Moving forward, embodied intelligence enterprises covering industrial collaborative robots and household service robots can leverage high-quality simulation data from Aperdata.AI, enabling AI technologies to migrate stably and efficiently from the digital domain to the physical world.
Finally, guests and executives jointly kicked off the launch of Earth Clone Program 8, embarking on a new journey of digital earth construction.
The official launch of EC8 marks the final sprint stage of 51WORLD’s journey toward its 2030 vision. It will also inject strong momentum into the widespread application of cutting-edge technologies including simulation, digital twin, artificial intelligence and synthetic data across diverse industries and real economies.
