News Summary

• The Create 2026 Baidu AI Developer Conference, themed Agents at Scale, opened in Beijing.
• The company unveiled several AI products focused on intelligent agents and enterprise applications.
• Founder Robin Li outlined the shift in AI from large model competition to AI agent competition.
• At the agent level, Li said AI will no longer be limited to passively responding to instructions, but will be able to learn from its environment, independently verify outcomes, and iteratively optimize its execution processes.
• The smallest productive unit in companies used to be teams, but in the future it could become one person plus a fleet of intelligent agents.