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IT Home reported on November 6 that, according to China Blue News and China Business News, Zhang Chaoyang, founder, chairman and CEO of Sohu, candidly acknowledged at this week’s 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit that he had “missed the mobile internet.”
Compared with the large-scale AI investments made by many companies, Sohu seems very “calm.” Zhang said he was not being calm; it was a clear-eyed choice. Having missed the mobile internet, he did not have as many resources, and large models require competing on resources. “We can’t afford to do it,” he said.
IT Home noted that, when discussing the enthusiasm for AI, Zhang said people should not let AI lead them entirely astray: opportunities to make money lie precisely in places that are overlooked. As AI technology develops, today’s Chinese-language internet is filled with all kinds of algorithms, and some people will want to obtain information through interactions with real people. He said he was not opposed to algorithms, but had chosen not to pursue algorithmic recommendations in product design.
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