Hanvon Technology's Liu Weihong: The digitization of smell is becoming a key breakthrough for artificial intelligence to achieve multimodal perception

36Kr learned that on March 25, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference officially opened. At the Zhongguancun Forum Open Mic ZGC Tech-Show, Liu Weihong, Chief Scientist of Intelligent Perception Technology at Hanvon, pointed out that digital olfaction is becoming a key breakthrough for artificial intelligence to advance towards multimodal perception. Currently, machine olfaction is upgrading from single recognition and static recognition to general recognition and spatial perception recognition. Hanvon's fully self-developed general olfactory perception platform uses "nose cell chips + AI algorithms" as its technological foundation, achieving rapid response recognition and quantitative analysis of complex odors, and has been successfully applied in seven major life scenarios including food, beverages, and daily chemicals