[Former Alibaba Vice President Zhang Kaifu: AI Has Entered the 'Self-Improvement' Phase, Potentially Ushering in a New Wave of Exponential Growth in the Next One to Two Years] BlockBeats News, August 29: At the 'AI × New Finance—Global Innovation Tour · Hong Kong Stop and Changjiang Star Program Launch Event,' XiaoPT AI founder and former Alibaba Vice President Zhang Kaifu stated that the core change in AI over the past year has been the evolution of models from chat tools to Agents capable of continuously completing complex tasks. The next phase worth paying attention to is AI's involvement in its own research, training, and inference optimization. Zhang Kaifu believes that this kind of 'recursive self-improvement' has already appeared in some studies. If, in the future, AI can continuously optimize models and training efficiency like top researchers, the speed of technological advancement could once again see exponential growth, making the next 1 to 2 years a critical variable in AI development. He also predicted that as model capabilities continue to improve, AI Agents will transition from passive responses to being long-term online and actively executing tasks, thereby driving new infrastructure demands in areas such as cloud computing, identity authentication, and cybersecurity.