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

Cointime update: Baidu founder Robin Li said on November 12 at the Baidu World 2026 opening that the next phase of artificial intelligence is the “intelligent organization,” and that companies must redesign their organizations the way they redesign factories. Li introduced three principles of organizational evolution: breaking job boundaries so tasks, not posts, become the basic unit; making tacit knowledge explicit on company platforms; and designing closed-loop processes, summarized as “measurable + looping = continuous evolution.”