“China's AI ecosystem is a fertile ground for global innovation. AI has become one of the key engines of the company's transformation and upgrading. We are accelerating the large-scale application of AI to fully empower all core business links.” During the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shen Jun, vice president of Unilever's China R&D Center, said that solutions developed based on China's AI ecosystem are rapidly being promoted globally. Unilever has launched the “AI for Science” innovation platform led by the Chinese R&D team and co-created with Shenshi Technology. The platform's clear goal is to make AI part of the daily R&D routine, and concrete results have been shown in many scenarios. Shen Jun gave an example. In the past, the platform “Intelligent R&D Model for Anti-corrosion Enhancing Ingredients” took 3 to 5 years to develop a solution, costing hundreds of thousands to one million euros, and a team of scientists; through AI, it could be completed within a few months, and the cost was only tens of thousands of euros, a reduction of 90%. According to Shen Jun, AI is already deeply embedded in all dimensions of Unilever's performance growth, operational efficiency, and corporate resilience. “Although the application is still in its infancy, the results are already obvious, and it will mature faster. We believe AI's push to cutting-edge science will have a geometric effect.”

“China's AI ecosystem is a fertile ground for global innovation. AI has become one of the key engines of the company's transformation and upgrading. We are accelerating the large-scale application of AI to fully empower all core business links.” During the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Shen Jun, vice president of Unilever's China R&D Center, said that solutions developed based on China's AI ecosystem are rapidly being promoted globally. Unilever has launched the “AI for Science” innovation platform led by the Chinese R&D team and co-created with Shenshi Technology. The platform's clear goal is to make AI part of the daily R&D routine, and concrete results have been shown in many scenarios. Shen Jun gave an example. In the past, the platform “Intelligent R&D Model for Anti-corrosion Enhancing Ingredients” took 3 to 5 years to develop a solution, costing hundreds of thousands to one million euros, and a team of scientists; through AI, it could be completed within a few months, and the cost was only tens of thousands of euros, a reduction of 90%. According to Shen Jun, AI is already deeply embedded in all dimensions of Unilever's performance growth, operational efficiency, and corporate resilience. “Although the application is still in its infancy, the results are already obvious, and it will mature faster. We believe AI's push to cutting-edge science will have a geometric effect.”