The widespread application of digital intelligence technology has broken through the traditional closed boundaries of enterprises and strengthened technical exchanges, information communication, and R&D cooperation with other innovative entities. However, how digital intelligence technology can empower enterprises'' innovation behavior and its open innovation performance needs further research. Based on the theoretical path of "Digital Intelligence Empowerment—Digital Intelligence Dual Ability and Resource Compositional Efficiency—Open Innovation", this paper constructs the influence of digital intelligence empowerment on digital intelligence dual capability and resource Compositional efficiency, and further influences the open innovation of SMEs. In this paper, using 354 questionnaires issued to small and medium-sized scientific and technological innovation-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises, applying structural equation model and combining the theory of enterprise capability and the theory of the Composition-based View, this paper analyzes the influence mechanism and action path of digital intelligence empowerment on the open innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises. The conclusion shows that the digital intelligence empowerment behavior of SMEs has improved the comprehensive digital intelligence level of the enterprise in the three dimensions of resource data, process digitalization and organizational intelligence.The dual ability of digital intelligence and the composite efficiency of resources play an intermediary role, which has a positive impact on the performance of open innovation.