The “2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC)” is held from July 26 to 28 in Shanghai. Ye Jieping, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud, stated at a forum during the conference that AI model technology is undergoing a historic transformation from “progressive innovation” to “exponential leap”.

In 2019, discussions were focused on single-point breakthroughs in language models, but large models have shown an explosive “cycle iteration” trend this year. In recent years, the entire industry has been in an unprecedented AI technology revolution, Ye opined.

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The transformation is propelled by three core elements: data explosion, computing power leap, and algorithm breakthrough, which collectively push AI to become the core force leading technological development, he added.

Ye also pointed out that 2025 is the inaugural year for Agent implementation, where enterprise-level intelligent agents break through the limitations of dialogue layers, establishing a foundation for complex task automation with an integrated “perception-decision-execution” architecture, promoting AI's transition from enhanced search to autonomous service carriers. The industry ecosystem is approaching a turning point.

Ye emphasized that we are entering the “Agent Priority” era, where interaction shifts from humans adapting to machines to machines understanding and actively serving humans. The core is the Agent's ability to autonomously complete complex tasks and continuously evolve through interaction.

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