The 2026 Chongli Forum was successfully held. Nearly a hundred celebrities, including Yu Minhong, Zhou Hongyi, and Sha Baoliang, discussed the new trends in AI together.
Introduction
Chongli is not only famous worldwide for the Winter Olympics but also a vibrant city that integrates ecological protection, modern facilities, and cultural heritage. It has convenient transportation, with a high - speed train taking only 50 minutes to reach Beijing, fully integrating it into the capital's "one - hour economic circle." It boasts a superior ecological environment, complete industrial supporting facilities, and profound cultural heritage.
From January 23rd to 25th, 2026, the 2026 Chongli Forum, guided by the People's Government of Chongli District and jointly hosted by Taiwu Ski Town, Jazi Light - Year, Break - the - Circle Culture, and Zhichen Semiconductor, was held as scheduled in Taiwu Town, Chongli District, Zhangjiakou City.
The theme of the 2026 Chongli Forum is "Standing for the New." "For the New" represents the courage to break boundaries and grow upwards in the real world. "Standing" is the backbone of firm belief and fearlessness, taking root after crossing the hills of concept explosions. At the forum, nearly a hundred important guests from the fields of technology, industry, and capital gathered to discuss the new order in the intelligent era. During the forum, dozens of media outlets conducted live broadcasts simultaneously.
At the opening ceremony, Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, and Yang Guang, the vice - president of Alibaba International Digital Business Group and the chairman of Alibaba Design Committee, served as keynote speakers, sharing their observations and thoughts on AI from their respective fields.
Li Dahai, the co - founder and CEO of Mianbi Intelligence, Guo Yandong, the founder and CEO of Zhipingfang, Huang Wei, the founder and CEO of Yunzhisheng, Ji Shisan, the CEO of Guokr and the founding partner of Future Light Cone Frontier Technology Fund, Ren Yongliang, the founder and CEO of Xinyan Group (CelebFortune), and Zhang Junlin, the chief scientist of Weibo, shared their views on how technology can cross the cycle and explore growth paths through two dialogues, combining their respective business practices.
As an important outcome of the 2026 Chongli Forum, "Chongli Entrepreneurs Alliance" was officially launched on - site. Huang Wei, the founder and CEO of Yunzhisheng, Ma Sile, the CEO of Rabbit Exhibition Intelligence, Jiang Tao, the CTO and executive CEO of Free Magnitude, Ren Yongliang, the founder and CEO of Xinyan Group (CelebFortune), Guo Yandong, the founder and CEO of Zhipingfang, Xu Junfeng, the founder and CEO of Future Black Technology, and Zhou Wenqian, the president of Taiwu Ski Town, witnessed the establishment of the "Chongli Entrepreneurs Alliance" as entrepreneur representatives.
Chongli will continue to optimize its services to help the alliance promote resource sharing, experience exchange, and industrial collaboration, and open up the connection channels between policies, talents, capital, and application scenarios.
It is worth mentioning that the 2026 Chongli Forum specially set up four special sub - forums: "Hardcore AI Gathering Place," "Intelligent Everything Experiment Field," "Big - Spender Poker Table," and "IP Break - the - Circle Accumulation Pool." The guests removed labels, discarded prejudices, and faced the inevitable "real problems": How can technology be implemented? How can business achieve a closed - loop? How can capital maintain patience? Where should humanistic spirit be placed?
Here, young entrepreneurs, engineers, creators, and investors communicate candidly, and a new consensus is quietly forming: Rather than chasing hotspots and seeking instant explosions, it is more important to re - confirm which problems are worth investing five or ten years in, and which directions require us to have enough patience and space for in - depth exploration.
For the participants, the 2026 Chongli Forum is not only a technical exchange but also a reconstruction of consensus. The so - called "Standing for the New" means re - confirming which problems are worth continuous investment and maintaining patience in an environment of accelerated iteration. Only judgments based on real value and long - termism can enable innovators to truly "stand" in the changing situation and cross the long slope with thick snow.
1.Crossing the Cycle: When AI Becomes a Fundamental Variable
At the opening ceremony of the 2026 Chongli Forum, three practitioners from different fields spontaneously pulled the focus back from the dazzling technical parameters to the real - world transformation scene.
Yu Minhong, the founder of New Oriental Education & Technology Group, delivered a keynote speech titled "The 'Constants' and 'Variables' in Education under the AI Wave - A New Paradigm from Knowledge Transmission to Ability Cultivation." He pointed out that the application prospects of artificial intelligence in the education field are broad, and the key lies in actively embracing change. In his view, from the Internet to artificial intelligence, technology has never subverted the essence; it only amplifies possibilities. AI will enable good educational concepts to run faster, go further, and take deeper roots.
Yu Minhong mentioned that in the AI era, the problem he most hopes to solve is to provide personalized teaching for children in rural areas, bridge the urban - rural education gap through technological means, and alleviate the inequality caused by the uneven distribution of educational resources.
"This world is created by the younger generation." Yu Minhong hopes that more young people are willing to engage in rural education, pay attention to farmers and the elderly, integrate resources, and act in concert to jointly create an inclusive and sustainable ecosystem.
Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, delivered a keynote speech titled "Towards the Era of Hundreds of Billions of Intelligent Agents - New Trends in the AI Industry in 2026." He judged that artificial intelligence has officially entered the era of intelligent agents, and by 2026, the number of intelligent agents is expected to reach the scale of tens of billions. Zhou Hongyi pointed out that current AI is undergoing a "dual - line evolution": on the one hand, large - scale models are continuously iterating and upgrading; on the other hand, intelligent agents are also developing rapidly. The key to intelligent agents lies in their ability to deeply understand professional knowledge in vertical fields and efficiently collaborate with human intelligence and labor, thereby promoting a leap in productivity and serving as a key carrier for the implementation of AI capabilities. Finally, Zhou Hongyi analogized the human evolution process and pointed out: "The key to human evolution lies in the inheritance of knowledge and the use of tools. Similarly, the emergence of group intelligence may become another important path to general artificial intelligence."
Yang Guang, the vice - president of Alibaba International Digital Business Group and the chairman of Alibaba Design Committee, delivered a theme speech titled "Designers in the AI Era." He pointed out that in the AI era, designers are not short of advanced productivity tools. With the emergence of AI technological capabilities, the ability system of designers also needs to be transformed. The importance of techniques is decreasing, and aesthetics and tool application are becoming increasingly crucial.
Taking his own cross - border creation as an example, Yang Guang said that not only does one need to collaborate with AI but also learn to train one's own AI. Everyone has the opportunity to become a creator who breaks boundaries.
Although the three guests have different backgrounds, they reached a high - level consensus: Technology will ultimately return to the essence of serving people, and real change is never achieved by algorithms alone but by people re - defining possibilities.
"Investment is like rolling a snowball; it needs a long slope with thick snow." This is a classic summary of Buffett's investment philosophy. In the fireside chat session of the 2026 Chongli Forum, Li Dahai, the co - founder and CEO of Mianbi Intelligence, Guo Yandong, the founder and CEO of Zhipingfang, and Wang Bo, the chief content officer of Jazi Light - Year, had a conversation. Next to the ski slopes of Taiwu Ski Resort, the theme of their conversation was "Long Slope, Thick Snow: The AI Power to Cross the Cycle."
Li Dahai pointed out that model capabilities and business implementation must "walk on two legs." Mianbi Intelligence early on targeted edge - side models and vertical scenarios, avoiding direct competition with large companies in the red ocean of general search and accelerating the commercial closed - loop. He believes that edge - side models are the inevitable path to AGI in the physical world.
Guo Yandong emphasized that embodied intelligence is a typical "long slope, thick snow" track. He believes that the model needs to be made smaller and more practical, and real data and feedback need to be continuously obtained in the physical world. He frankly said that only by adhering to long - term investment for more than ten years, continuously open - sourcing and iterating the basic model, and deploying it on stable intelligent hardware can one gain an advantage in the future competition of humanoid robots providing real productivity services.
Wang Bo summarized: "There is no shortcut to crossing the cycle. The only way is to adhere to long - termism. Only by adhering to long - termism, consolidating the basic model, and resisting short - term temptations can one slide further on the thick - snow long slope of AI."
The peak dialogue, with the theme of "If AI Were a 'Person', Would You Like to 'Ski' with It?", injected a touch of romanticism into this technological event.
Ren Yongliang, the founder and CEO of Xinyan Group (CelebFortune), Huang Wei, the founder and CEO of Yunzhisheng, Ji Shisan, the CEO of Guokr and the founding partner of Future Light Cone Frontier Technology Fund, and Zhang Junlin, the chief scientist of Weibo, together explored the way of symbiosis between humans and AI.
The guests unanimously believed that AI still has uncertainties, and the key lies in how humans maintain the right of leadership and dance with AI. One should not only trust but also be sober.
Ren Yongliang pointed out that emotional companionship should not be about pleasing but about endowing AI with subjectivity through embodied interaction. Users need to insist on independent thinking, actively optimize prompts, and actively ask questions to strengthen their initiative in collaborating with AI.
Huang Wei emphasized that in high - risk fields such as healthcare, AI hallucinations must be strictly controlled, for example, reduced to within 2% to ensure the safety bottom line. At the same time, society's perception of talents and education also needs to be adjusted accordingly.
Ji Shisan compared human - machine collaboration to "skiing." One can let AI handle trivial matters, but must retain the ability to "brake," "turn," and even "jump out of the car" to maintain human judgment.
Zhang Junlin proposed from a technical perspective that to reduce hallucinations, models with search and in - depth reasoning capabilities should be combined, and the accuracy of facts should be clearly required in the prompts to balance the algorithm's understanding of intentions and real - world constraints.
The opening ceremony of the 2026 Chongli Forum was hosted by Wu Shanshan, a financial host and the founder of Break - the - Circle Culture.
2.Moving towards Reality: What Real Problems Is AI Solving?
The "Hardcore AI Gathering Place" sub - forum invited more than 20 front - line entrepreneurs to conduct intensive and high - frequency speeches and dialogues for several consecutive hours around the four hottest tracks in the current AI industry: AI Agent, AI Infra, Embodied Intelligence, and AI Applications.
