Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (Leiphone · Nov 5, 2026)

Baidu World 2026 set for Nov 12; Robin Li to discuss intelligent organizations

KEY FACTS

Baidu released a teaser poster for Baidu World 2026 on November 4, with Robin Li scheduled to deliver a keynote on November 12.
The theme of this year's conference is "The Next Act: Intelligent Organizations," and the poster raises questions such as the new factory and the three principles of organizational evolution.
Baidu has built a full-stack AI system spanning chips, cloud, models, and agents, and completed a dual primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Nasdaq in September this year.
On November 3, Baidu Apollo unveiled Apollo World, a world model for physical AI, for global testing of Apollo Go.
The conference features 1 main forum, more than 10 sub-forums, more than 40 AI open classes, and a 6,000-square-meter AI exhibition area.

KEY DATA

83%Baidu companion enterprise customer count, quarter-over-quarter growth

40 millionKuku AI global AI office monthly active users

over 100,000Baidu Yijing partner customer count

more than 30Number of industries covered by Baidu Yijing

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

Baidu has shifted its conference theme from a technology narrative to an organizational narrative, signaling that AI adoption has entered a phase of competing on enterprise internalization. Its full-stack layout plus dual listing give it the confidence to tell a system-level story, but whether customer numbers for agents and digital humans can translate into verifiable organizational efficiency gains is the key to enterprises paying. The industry should watch whether it can offer a replicable transformation path, rather than another round of concept launches.

Source: Leiphone report