Baidu Promotes Smart Organization and 37,000 AI Agents

At Baidu World 2026 in Beijing, Robin Li advocated for a model of "intelligent organization" to support the adoption of AI. The company highlighted a significant increase in its internal AI agents and their weekly output. Three operational principles and a new distribution of roles are set to guide this shift, according to the founder.

At Baidu, 37,000 active AI agents and over 1 million weekly tasks

Robin Li cited Baidu's operations as an early example of this direction. According to Baidu, the number of AI agents active daily has risen over the past year from about 5,000 to 37,000. The company also reported that the tasks completed each week by these agents have increased from 84,000 to over 1 million. These figures were shared during the Baidu World 2026 event in Beijing.

Robin Li presents three rules for adopting AI in businesses

Robin Li outlined three principles aimed at framing the adoption of AI in enterprises. He suggests organizing work around tasks that transcend job titles. He recommends documenting employees' expertise to make it reusable by teams and AI agents. Finally, he advocates for measuring the results of each workflow to enable continuous improvement over time.

Roles divided into two groups and task-based work allocation

According to Robin Li, jobs should be divided between "builders," responsible for designing products or services, and "sellers," whose role relies on communication and trust. This distinction supports his argument for a task-based distribution of missions, as AI takes on an increasing share of the steps within teams. He also indicated that the next phase of AI integration will require companies to rethink their organization.