Baidu’s Robin Li: Next Phase of AI Is the ‘Intelligent Organization’

Cointime update: Baidu founder Robin Li said at the Baidu World 2026 opening on November 12 that the decade from 2016 to 2026 saw AI form an independent technology stack, with a four-layer “chip, cloud, model, agent” architecture taking shape over that period. If energy sits upstream of AI technology, Li said, the downstream is organizational capability — an AI-native organizational system distinct from today’s prevailing hierarchical model, which he called the “intelligent organization.”