Zhou Hongyi: In the next three to five years, China is expected to develop intelligent entities with a scale of hundreds of billions.

At the 2026 China Internet Development Symposium, Zhou Hongyi, founder of Qihoo 360 Group, stated that intelligent agents will drive the reconstruction of internet infrastructure, and future software forms will become more modular, even generated by intelligent agents. He predicts that in the next three to five years, China is expected to develop intelligent agents worth hundreds of billions of yuan, which will become the main force of the internet. Regarding security, Zhou Hongyi pointed out that intelligent agents still face uncertainties and new types of attack risks in enterprise applications, making security a key factor for implementation. He proposed “using models to control models,” combating risks with security intelligent agents, and promoting the development of artificial intelligence under controllable conditions. (Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily)