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Community Blog Two Open-source Projects were Awarded at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen

Two Open-source Projects were Awarded at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen

This article profiles two award-winning open-source projects: an AI development framework (Spring AI Alibaba) and an AI-focused API gateway (Higress).

By Wang Chen

The 2025 "Direct to Wuzhen" Global Internet Competition is one of the key activities of the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, and has been held for seven consecutive years since 2019. This year's competition is themed "Discover Future New Forces, Build a New Digital Ecosystem" and features six tracks: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Travel, Digital Intelligent Healthcare, Intelligent Manufacturing, Intelligent Endpoints, and Open Source Projects (divided into Open Source Model Application Competition and Open Source Competitive Challenge).

Since the registration began in June, it has attracted 1,082 projects from 29 countries worldwide, including 864 domestic projects and 218 overseas projects. After intense competition, 71 projects have made it to the finals, including 11 overseas projects. In the final competition:

Spring AI Alibaba and Higress respectively received the titles of Open Source Pioneer Community and Outstanding Open Source Community, and two community contributors, Zhang Shenghang (GitHubID: shenghang) and Xing Guofu (GitHubID: erasernoob), were awarded the Most Valuable Contributor Award.

Thanks to all community contributors and developer users for their trust.

About Spring AI Alibaba

Spring AI Alibaba is an open-source project built on Spring AI, representing the best practices in Java AI application development for Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi series of models and services. It offers high-level AI API abstraction and cloud-native infrastructure integration solutions, helping developers quickly build AI applications. Currently, Spring AI Alibaba is upgrading its underlying technology to AgentScope, positioning itself as part of the AgentScope ecosystem, focusing on effectively connecting Spring and AgentScope.

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About Higress

Higress is an open-source API gateway, with a core based on Istio and Envoy, allowing Go/Rust/JS and other languages to write Wasm plugins. It provides an Ingress gateway for K8s clusters and is compatible with many K8s Nginx Ingress annotations, enabling a smooth and rapid migration from K8s Nginx Ingress to Higress. Additionally, as an AI gateway, it offers unified management of LLM API and MCP API. It has served enterprises across various industries such as internet, finance, and IT services, including Tongyi Qianwen, Alibaba Cloud Bailian, Ctrip, Ant Group, DingTalk, Youku, Kuaishou, PayPal, Byhealth, UU Running, Sealos, and Guotai Junan Property Insurance.

Leading the way in the domestic open-source AI gateway's general capabilities, including

  • Model-oriented: Unified proxy for various mainstream large models and self-built large model services, providing OpenAI-compatible access methods, along with capabilities such as second API KEY issuance, rate limiting, security protection, and observability.
  • Agent-oriented: Users can seamlessly integrate various intelligent capabilities into their business systems quickly and securely, achieving innovative functions such as intelligent dialogue and process automation, helping companies efficiently build an intelligent application ecosystem.
  • MCP-oriented: Supports quick conversion from API to MCP, and provides MCP Server proxy, security authentication, as well as unified observability and rate limiting governance capabilities.

If you want to learn more about Alibaba Cloud API Gateway (Higress), please click: https://higress.ai/en/

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