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.
Termsslug: intelligent-organization
Intelligent Organization
智能组织
AI-native organizational form proposed by Robin Li, embedding digital employees into workflows instead of hierarchical structure
Curated Intelligence
InfoQ 中文T2·Industry
58 pts
IT之家 · 智能时代T2·Industry
42 pts
At Baidu World 2026, Robin Li argued that the next act of AI is the "intelligent organization," describing an AI-era stack built on GPUs with cloud, models and agent applications layered above, while organizational capability downstream is where productivity is actually unlocked. He urged enterprises to move beyond treating AI as a personal productivity tool and embed digital employees into sales, support, R&D and operations.