: The digitalization of the physical world will be a very important foundation for AI.

"The changes brought by AI will be much greater than the changes brought by the entire Internet." At the management communication meeting of Meituan in 2026 on March 13, Meituan CEO Wang Xing shared his views on the development of AI: "There is no fundamental difference between mobile Internet and Internet, similar to roses and peonies, whereas compared to the Internet, the difference between AI and the Internet is like that between a monkey and a flower, the scale and impact are much larger." "The experience of 'old experts' may not necessarily be effective, and various 'weird' ideas of young people will continue to emerge. Facing the wave of AI, the only thing we can do is to actively embrace it," Wang Xing said. Wang Xing stated that for Meituan, the digitization of the physical world will be a very important foundation for AI, "although large models are becoming smarter. But we can imagine, even if Einstein was a secretary, if we ask him to reserve a restaurant, he still would not know if that restaurant has any seats. This is not an intelligence problem, but an information problem."