Luckin Coffee (“Luckin” or the “Company”; OTC: LKNCY), China’s leading retail coffee chain, attended the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (“WAIC 2026”). Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries on an unprecedented scale and redefining the concept of consumption. As the conference’s exclusive freshly made beverage partner, Luckin Coffee unveiled for the first time its long-term AI blueprint for smart beverage retail, showcasing an end-to-end digital intelligence foundation spanning the three pillars of its “people, products, and places” business framework. The Company also introduced its all-new AI-Powered Ecosystem for the entire coffee value chain, bringing together leading technology companies and supply chain partners to accelerate AI adoption in manufacturing, supply chain management and consumer experience, while supporting the broader digital transformation of the beverage industry.

End-to-End Intelligent Infrastructure Showcases Digital Capabilities Across “People, Products, and Places”

As one of the world’s most influential AI summits, WAIC 2026 brought together more than 1,100 exhibitors from around the world. Luckin Coffee’s booth attracted significant attention from visitors throughout the event. The Company showcased its full-stack intelligent coffee retail framework built around the three business pillars of “people, products, and places,” demonstrating how Chinese consumer brands are leveraging AI technologies to advance digital operations.

People as the Purpose: Data-Driven Product Innovation and AI-Powered Customer Experience

Luckin Coffee leverages data-driven customer insights across product development and intelligent marketing, creating a more seamless digital consumption experience. Its product innovation framework integrates four key dimensions – consumer feedback, market analysis, launch timing, and flavor trends – to identify promising new product opportunities and bring a series of popular beverages to market. AI Lucky, Luckin Coffee’s AI agent developed in partnership with VolcEngine, stood out as one of the event’s highlights. Fully integrated into major super-app ecosystems such as Qwen, WeChat, and Alipay, AI Lucky enables consumers to access Luckin’s services more conveniently across multiple consumption scenarios, delivering a smarter and more seamless beverage experience.

Products as the Cornerstone: Intelligent Supply Chain Sets a New Industry Benchmark

Luckin demonstrated how AI is transforming its supply chain by integrating intelligent technologies across sourcing, warehousing, logistics and roasting. From tracing the origin of coffee beans to delivering finished beverages to consumers, AI is improving visibility, efficiency and operational coordination throughout the value chain. Luckin Coffee stands as both an active participant and contributor to this industry transformation. Its roasting network, with facilities in Pingnan, Kunshan, and Qingdao, together with its Xiamen facility under construction, is expected to achieve a combined annual roasting capacity of over 155,000 tons. This expanded production capacity not only helps advance China’s coffee processing industry toward greater scale and operational efficiency, but also reflects the Company’s “dual-engine strategy” of combining intelligent manufacturing with green, low-carbon operations to support high-quality growth across China’s coffee industry.

Places as the Driving Force: Intelligent Operations across the Store Lifecycle Guarantee Consistent Coffee Quality

Luckin Coffee integrates AI technologies across the full lifecycle of its stores, including site selection, store construction and daily operations. This end-to-end intelligent store system helps consumers quickly locate the nearest Luckin store, while enabling more efficient operations and consistent product quality across its expanding store network, enhancing the overall consumer experience.

Building an AI-Powered Ecosystem for the Entire Coffee Value Chain: Collaborative Innovation Accelerates the Industry Development

At WAIC 2026, Luckin Coffee introduced its AI-Powered Ecosystem for the entire coffee value chain, bringing together technology companies and supply chain partners, including Alibaba Cloud, Baidu AI Cloud, Feishu, Huawei Cloud, VolcEngine, Tencent Cloud, Iluvatar CoreX, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Designed to accelerate the integration of AI technologies across manufacturing, supply chain management, and consumer experiences, this ecosystem aims to develop advanced AI applications and share practical implementation experiences to propel the transformation and upgrade of the industry’s value chain. Built on openness and collaboration, this AI-Powered Ecosystem for the entire coffee value chain will serve as a powerful engine driving the adoption of digital intelligence and advancing development across the consumer sector.