At the 2026 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Wu Yongming, the CEO of Alibaba Group, delivered a speech in which he shared his profound insights into the dawn of the 'machine intelligence' era. He highlighted that machines are steadily emerging as the primary entities engaged in thinking processes. He further elaborated that intelligence would evolve into a commodity produced on a massive scale, with the cumulative thinking capacity of machines potentially outstripping that of humans by a staggering thousand times. Wu Yongming underscored the pivotal role of AI models, AI chips, and AI cloud as the three foundational pillars underpinning the machine intelligence era. He also revealed Alibaba's commitment to making sustained, long-term investments in these three critical infrastructure sectors.
