Entrepreneurs pin their information on an exhibition board at the ModelScope Developer Center in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province.
AI-powered one-person companies (OPCs) are taking off across China, as individuals use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to handle every stage of a business, from product design to market launch.
The number of OPC communities nationwide jumped from 95 to 618 in the first half of this year and now spans 24 provinces and 75 cities, according to the 2026 national OPC development observation report.
Hangzhou, the capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, is now home to more than 2,000 "AI+OPC" enterprises and more than 50 such communities.
At Honghub, an OPC community in Hangzhou's Shangcheng district, entrepreneurs work side by side at open desks, each running a company on their own.
