At Baidu World 2026, Robin Li argued that rising token spend without matching revenue stems from swapping in AI tools without redesigning organization and workflows. He proposed three principles for AI-era org evolution and disclosed that Baidu's internal daily active agents grew from about 5,000 to 37,000, with weekly effective tasks up more than 11x.
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Robin Li
李彦宏
Baidu founder and CEO, a long-time advocate of AI infrastructure and AI-native organizational transformation.
Curated Intelligence
InfoQ 中文T2·Industry
58 pts
IT之家 · 智能时代T2·Industry
71 pts
At Baidu World 2026, Robin Li unveiled "Ciyuansuo," a neutral, trusted marketplace for buying and selling large model services. The platform runs admission tests and continuous quality monitoring on models and issues credit ratings for providers across service quality, compliance and commercial delivery, reporting over 100 supply resources and 700 billion daily tokens within its first month.