The "Deep Intelligence Alliance AI + Real Estate Ecosystem Conference and 2026 New Product Launch" was held in Shanghai on May 27, 2026, under the theme "Through That Door: The Modular Resonance of Real Estate," focusing on innovative applications of AI technology in the real estate development, senior living, housing rental, property services, and broader real estate industry.
Zeng Ming, former Chief Strategy Officer of Alibaba and a renowned strategy professor, stated in his speech that in the AI era, corporate strategy and organizational capability are two sides of the same coin, inseparable. Currently, industries are generally grappling with three major dilemmas in AI transformation: a sharp increase in AI tool token consumption with little positive return on investment, improved individual efficiency but no substantial growth in overall business and profits, and widespread exploration of AI applications without a clear transformation path. He emphasized that the key to breaking through lies not in obsessing over isolated efficiency gains but in understanding the underlying logic of AI-driven change and reconstructing the fundamental architecture of business and organization.
Zeng Ming pointed out that 2025 marks the first year of the AI agent explosion and a critical turning point for industrial transformation. "This year, AI has transitioned from conversation to task execution for the first time. The essence of an intelligent agent is an AI system with a sense of purpose and the ability to proactively execute tasks." Unlike previous conversational AI, the new generation of AI is deeply involved in the entire social production process, with transformative power far exceeding that of the industrial revolution. As token costs continue to decline and AI capabilities steadily iterate, standardized, process-driven white-collar work will gradually be replaced, fundamentally altering corporate competition logic: future organizational effectiveness will no longer rely on headcount growth but on the cognitive abilities of top talent and the leveraged reuse of AI tools.
He systematically outlined the five-stage evolution path for enterprises to become AI-native organizations, noting that most companies currently remain at the elementary stage of "employees using AI tools." "All our production methods to date have been defined around humans. To maximize AI's value, humans have ironically become the biggest obstacle." True AI transformation, he explained, involves moving to the second step: enabling AI to autonomously complete full business cycles for 24/7 continuous iteration. The third and most critical step for industry transformation is achieving multi-AI agent collaboration. Using the example of the newly launched Yiju Xiao Xin, he illustrated that such industry-specific vertical agents are replacing core roles in the real estate brokerage sector, driving the industry toward skills-based and agent-based roles, and forcing the restructuring of business processes and organizational frameworks.
He introduced a new profile for "creative intelligence talent": individuals with knowledge creation capabilities, cross-disciplinary innovation skills, and holistic collaborative decision-making abilities. Such talent will become the core assets of future enterprises.
This talent evolution simultaneously brings disruptive changes to organizational paradigms. Zeng Ming predicted: "Traditional companies are mechanical systems of the industrial era, while future organizations will be biological systems, with evolution at their core." Traditional pyramid-style hierarchical structures will gradually collapse, with middle management functions such as information transmission, task allocation, and supervision being fully replaced by AI. Future enterprise organizations will simplify into a two-tier structure: a top layer of creative intelligence talent and a bottom layer of self-iterating, zero-cost AI silicon-based employees, completely breaking the traditional model of fixed positions and hierarchical management. The smallest organizational unit will shift from "positions" to "cognitive nodes," dynamically collaborating based on task needs and achieving global intelligent scheduling through an AI organizational operating system.
Zeng Ming concluded that human society has progressed through productivity revolutions, management revolutions, and IT revolutions, and is now entering the era of the creativity revolution. AGI will take over all routine knowledge-based work, with human core value focusing on creation, innovation, and high-level judgment. Future enterprises will no longer be mechanical systems of scale expansion but biologically intelligent organizations capable of continuous self-evolution, with the core goal of continuously upgrading collective cognition and delivering high-quality business judgments.
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