During a critical window period when a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation are accelerating their convergence, generative artificial intelligence is moving from cognitive intelligence to autonomous intelligence. AI has also evolved from a tool-based technology into an important productive infrastructure. With the large-scale implementation of generative AI in various industries, its impact has extended from local efficiency improvements to a systematic reshaping of corporate organizational forms, business processes, and value creation methods. As a key technical form in this process,AI Agentsare rapidly becoming the core hub connecting model capabilities, data assets, and business systems, driving enterprises from digital transformation to intelligent reconstruction, making 'AI empowering every industry' a reality from concept to practice, and thus initiating a new phase of industry intelligent transformation.
Against this backdrop, Frost & Sullivan (hereinafter referred to as 'Frost & Sullivan') has jointly released the '2026 AI Empowering Every Industry Annual List Report' with LeadLeo Research Institute, focusing on enterprises and representative products in the field of AI Agents in China, covering key tracks such as enterprise services, finance, the internet, e-commerce retail, industrial manufacturing, healthcare, innovation industries, and social responsibility. At the same time, the report has specially set up an 'AI Hero List' aiming to select benchmark enterprises/products that have made outstanding contributions in technological innovation, industrial implementation, business model exploration, and ecosystem construction through authoritative and objective multi-dimensional evaluations, and to uncover the key role of individual forces in the AI industrialization process, thereby stimulating more practitioners to continuously innovate and build ecosystems.
2026 AI Empowering Every Industry Annual List
—— Selection Results
After a multi-dimensional comprehensive evaluation by nearly a hundred expert judges composed of Frost & Sullivan and LeadLeo Research Institute, this annual list of AI Empowering Every Industry is centered around the AI Hero List and industry annual benchmark AI Agents. A total of 150 enterprises were reviewed, covering nearly 300 enterprises/products and individuals, and ultimately nine major lists were selected. The final selection results for each category (the ranking of the lists is not in order) are as follows:
AI Hero and Individual List
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in Enterprise Services
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in Finance
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in the Internet
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in E-commerce Retail
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in Industrial Manufacturing
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in Healthcare
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in Innovation Industries
Top 10 Annual Benchmark Agents in Social Responsibility Industries
The release of this annual list reflects the mainstream path and development direction of AI Agent commercialization implementation in China: from tool-based applications mainly focused on single functions, gradually moving towards system capability building centered around process optimization, organizational collaboration, and business closed-loop construction. As AI Agents continue to be embedded into the core business scenarios of enterprises, their value is extending from 'efficiency improvement tools' to 'key business support capabilities', having an increasingly substantial impact on the path of enterprise digitalization and intelligent transformation, and providing a reference sample for observing the next stage of development of China's AI industry.
