Li Yanhong: The next chapter of AI is intelligent organizations, and future positions will converge into two categories: Builder and Seller

On November 12, Baidu founder Robin Li stated at the opening ceremony of Baidu World 2026 that the decade from 2016 to 2026 is the decade when artificial intelligence technology forms an independent technology stack, and the "Chip Cloud Model" four-layer architecture gradually takes shape during this period. He predicts that the next chapter of artificial intelligence is intelligent organizations, which differ from the current hierarchical system of AI-native organizational structures. "If artificial intelligence is the new electric power, then intelligent organizations are the new factories of the AI era, where true productivity occurs."

Robin Li proposed the "Three Principles of Organizational Evolution": breaking down job boundaries to unleash organizational vitality; accumulating tacit knowledge to build organizational intelligence; designing closed-loop processes to promote organizational evolution. He believes that future jobs will not disappear but will converge, roughly divided into two categories: Builders responsible for creating new things, and Sellers responsible for interpersonal communication and trust-building.

According to his disclosure, in the past year, the average daily active intelligent agents within Baidu grew from 5,000 to 37,000, with the number of effective tasks completed by intelligent agents per week increasing from 84,000 to over 1 million, and 4,300 Workspaces have been established, accumulating over 20,000 organizational Skills.