AGI Is Just the Starting Point, ASI Is the Ultimate Goal: A Deep Dive into Wu Yongming’s “Long-Term Bomb” at the Yunqi Conference

“AGI is only the starting point. ASI is the ultimate goal.” —— Wu Yongming, CEO of Alibaba Cloud, opening keynote at the Yunqi Conference Every year, the Yunqi Conference is a barometer of where China’s cloud computing and AI industry is heading. This year, Alibaba Cloud CEO Wu Yongming dropped a “long-term bomb” right at the beginning: “AGI is only the starting point. ASI is the ultimate goal.” This single statement set the stage for a conversation that goes far beyond today’s hype around generative AI. It signals a strategic declaration about where Alibaba Cloud—and perhaps the AI industry at …