Physical World & Real-World ImpactWorld Economic Forum (with McKinsey)
WEF names 23 new Global Lighthouse Network sites
Announced 23 new Global Lighthouse Network sites. By its tally, 94% of successful transformations combine multiple technology domains, and deploying AI on its own is rare. None of the 23 new sites is semiconductor-specific, and none is in Korea
Why it matters
Quasi-standard evidence, tallied across 220 sites, that adopting AI on its own does not deliver results. On the other hand, the absence of back-end sites signals that this benchmark is hard to apply directly to OSATs
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Officialweforum.orghttps://www.weforum.org/press/2026/01/global-lighthouse-network-recognizes-23-new-sites-launches-ai-platform-for-industrial-transformation/Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week