BlockBeats News, July 17, during the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Yin Qi, Chairman of StepLeap Star Corporation and Qianli Technology, attended the opening ceremony as a special guest and delivered a keynote speech at the main forum (morning session) titled "When Intelligent Agents Enter the Physical World." Yin Qi stated that the next wave of the AI industry will come from the integration of intelligent agent models with next-generation end products. Intelligence is moving beyond the digital screen and into the real physical world, driving the industry to undergo three major structural changes in new systems, new carriers, and a new network.

Yin Qi predicted that by 2026, model capabilities have crossed a crucial threshold, and AI has evolved from performing simple tasks in seconds to being able to work independently for dozens of hours. Programming languages are becoming the core metric for AI advancement after natural language, and the industry as a whole is already at the foot of the AGI peak. Along with technological iterations, intelligent agents are becoming the smallest unit of productivity, and in the future, professions such as engineers, designers, and researchers will have dedicated intelligent agents, enabling individuals to have team-level production capabilities.

Yin Qi pointed out that the wave of intelligent agents will bring about three major underlying industrial transformations: first, at the new system level, the ability of intelligent agents is determined jointly by model capability and Agentic OS (Agent Operating System) capability. The latter connects models with data, tools, and devices, defining the actual operational boundaries of intelligent agents, and will become the core infrastructure of the intelligent agent era. Second, at the new carrier level, the concept of terminal design will shift from "human-centric" to "symbiosis between humans and machines." Computers, phones, cars, and robots will become multi-scenario carriers of the same intelligent agent, supporting intelligent cross-terminal presence, free migration, and collaborative task completion. Third, at the new network level, the A2A (Agent to Agent) network will establish a human-machine symbiotic value network composed of both humans and intelligent agents. Intelligent agents will have independent identities and credit systems, enabling them to autonomously engage in cooperation and transactions, becoming the foundational support of the intelligent agent economy.