Baidu is charging head‑first into the “agent era” by recasting AI agents as the new engines of work and positioning Daily Active Agents (DAA) as the metric that will define the industry’s next decade.
At Baidu Create 2026, CEO Robin Li (top) declared that autonomous agents — not humans — will soon drive the bulk of digital productivity, predicting global DAA could surge past 10 billion.
The company has rolled out a refreshed portfolio built for this shift: DuMate, a general-purpose agent now available on mobile; Miaoda, a coding agent whose new app and enterprise editions push disposable software into the mainstream; Baidu Yijing, an upgraded digital human platform designed for global creators; and Famou Agent 2.0, a self-evolving agent capable of closed-loop execution across complex industrial workflows.
Li described an AI evolution theory involving a three-layer transformation — agents becoming autonomous executors, individuals becoming super individuals and enterprises evolving into mixed human–agent formations.
He predicted global DAA could surpass 10 billion as tokens measure cost, not value, and that active agents are the true indicator of ecosystem health.
Supporting this agent-first vision is Baidu’s upgraded full-stack AI Cloud, optimised for large-scale agent deployment and powered in part by its Kunlunxin AI chips. The cloud underpins Ernie 5.1, which recently topped Chinese model rankings on LMArena’s text and search leaderboards.
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