On Sept. 22 at the 2026 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming said machines are becoming the primary agents of thought and intelligence is evolving into a scaled commodity; he forecast total machine thinking will exceed human level

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On Sept. 22 at the 2026 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming said machines are becoming the primary agents of thought and intelligence is evolving into a scaled commodity; he forecast total machine thinking will exceed human levels by more than 1,000 times. He identified AI models, AI chips and AI cloud as the three foundational pillars of the machine-intelligence era and said Alibaba will steadily invest in those infrastructure areas as a long-term strategic choice.

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