At the Baidu World 2026 opening on Nov. 12, Baidu founder Robin Li said AI’s
next phase will be intelligent organizations and urge firms to redesign
organizational structures like factories, outlining three market-relevant
principles. First, break job boundaries and move from industrial-era job units
to task networks; roles will not disappear but compress into two types —
Builders (create new products/services) and Sellers (connect people and
communications). Second, convert tacit knowledge into explicit, platform-stored
organizational intelligence that can be accumulated and reused — the company’s
deepest moat, he said. Third, design measurable closed-loop processes to enable
autonomous organizational evolution, summarized by his formula: measurable +
looping = continuous evolution.
