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Alibaba expert envisions AI agents transforming daily life in 5 years
Hong Kong poised for bigger role in the AI landscape thanks to capital and research capabilities, Huang Fei says at Post’s China Conference
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Digital colleagues will be a part of everyday life in the next five years, according to an artificial intelligence (AI) expert from Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit, who envisions an ecosystem of application developers creating AI agents to cater to consumer and business demands.
“Agentic AI is very popular in the industry right now,” said Huang Fei, vice-president of Alibaba Cloud and head of the company’s Tongyi Natural Language Processing Lab. Speaking at the China Conference 2025 organised by the Post on Tuesday, he was referring to systems that use AI to act autonomously on behalf of users to pursue goals or complete tasks.
The future AI landscape would be dominated by a small number of fundamental model providers and a larger number of developers producing such agents, Huang said.
His comments underscored Alibaba’s strategy of becoming a key provider of AI infrastructure and fundamental models. The company’s Qwen series of open-source large language models has become popular, and Alibaba has pledged at least US$53 billion over the next three years to invest in AI infrastructure. Alibaba owns the Post.
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