Kingsoft Office CEO Zhang Yuanqing: The model capability gap is decreasing. All domestic models have been switched to domestic models in June this year. At the Kingsoft Office 2026 AI Productivity Conference held today, Kingsoft Office CEO Zhang Yuanqing shared that the scarcity of large models is decreasing and the capability gap between models is gradually narrowing. No one can form an absolute barrier.

Kingsoft Office CEO Zhang Yuanqing: The model capability gap is decreasing. All domestic models have been switched to domestic models in June this year. At the Kingsoft Office 2026 AI Productivity Conference held today, Kingsoft Office CEO Zhang Yuanqing shared that the scarcity of large models is decreasing and the capability gap between models is gradually narrowing. No one can form an absolute barrier. "In the past three years, the industry was once worried that OpenAI would be the dominant one and that domestic models would have difficulty catching up. But looking back today, models have been ranked on the list almost every week. The news that 'a certain model surpassed doctoral students' is making people tired." Zhang Yuanqing said bluntly. According to him, a more iconic signal comes from Kingsoft Office: Last year, the company still used a large number of foreign models for internal development, but by June this year, it had all switched to domestic models. This is not driven by emotion, but by rational choice - when model capabilities tend to be homogeneous, the criteria for selecting models change from "who is smarter" to "who is more stable and who can provide sufficient tokens." The model is becoming the underlying infrastructure like cloud servers. Behind this is an essential issue that is confused by many people: model is not equal to software. Models themselves will become less and less scarce, but what is truly valuable are the applications, workflows, and ecosystems built based on the models. For the office software industry, AI is not a disruptor, but an evolutionary tool. via cnBeta.COM - Chinese industry information station (author: Source: Sina Technology)