AI has painted a bizarre and multifaceted landscape, altering our perception of industries beyond the confines of the internet.

By transcending the internet paradigm, industries once thought to have reached their pinnacle are now revealing fresh potential and possibilities.

Given this potential, it is plausible to assert that in the AI era, virtually all industries merit reevaluation and reinvention.

Perhaps fueled by the boundless possibilities of AI, we have witnessed Alibaba's significant investment in AI and Tencent's relentless promotion of Tencent Yuanbao.

Assuming no unforeseen events, as more players enter the AI fray, particularly when AI becomes the primary competitive differentiator, a novel battleground will emerge.

Just as the internet era profoundly transformed numerous aspects of our lives, similar transformations are likely to occur in the AI era.

AI's immense allure and widespread acceptance among players are not solely due to its novelty but because it offers a groundbreaking solution. This solution enables us to uncover new growth opportunities, achieve new developments, and reimagine almost every industry.

This article delves into the underlying reasons why all industries deserve reinvention from the perspective of AI, exploring the inherent transformational logic within industries.

AI Provides the Possibility of Enhanced Efficiency

During the internet era, numerous players participated, and industries interconnected due to internet-based disintermediation and the "internet+" model, which facilitated efficiency gains across various sectors, including e-commerce and finance.

However, as the internet started to encounter disintermediation efficiency challenges, particularly with player expansion and traffic saturation, internet-driven efficiency enhancements faced increasing obstacles.

It has become evident that relying solely on the internet and disintermediation methods is increasingly ineffective in enhancing efficiency, or the cost of doing so has soared.

Take e-commerce as an example; with a vast array of products, users' primary concern is no longer the inability to purchase goods but rather finding suitable products among numerous options.

Against this backdrop, the quest for alternative methods to improve efficiency, better and at a lower cost, without relying solely on the internet, has become imperative.

It is in this context that AI has emerged, attracting the attention of numerous players.

AI technology presents new possibilities for enhancing previously unimprovable efficiency and shortening seemingly unavoidable intermediation processes.

This gives us reason to believe that AI can provide a novel solution for efficiency enhancement, fostering new business models and unlocking new development opportunities.

AI Enables Business Evolution

As the internet era progressed, players encountering development bottlenecks began exploring new development and business models, leading to the emergence of new retail, the nascent industrial internet, and numerous new concepts.

However, these concepts failed to sustain their momentum due to their inability to spawn new businesses or disrupt traditional internet-based business models.

With the advent of the AI era, particularly as AI catalyzes new business evolutions and achieves iteration and innovation of internet-based business models, we witness a fundamentally different development paradigm.

From an AI perspective, business models are no longer platform- or center-centric, driven by boundary expansion or scale growth, nor are they external-focused.

If we encapsulate this state, new business evolutions and innovations that transcend traditional or internet-centric models may be the key to AI opening up new development avenues.

It is no exaggeration to state that the maturity and implementation of AI have paved the way for new business ventures.

Defining this AI-spawned business, it transcends the boundaries of virtual and real economies, platforms, and users, achieving true symbiosis, coexistence, mutual collaboration, and evolving into a novel business state.

As AI implementation progresses, especially with its deep and comprehensive transformation of B-end and C-end sectors, the constituent elements and operational logic of all industries will undergo profound changes.

Against this backdrop, new businesses will emerge, and we will witness a thorough transformation across retail, finance, manufacturing, education, and many other industries.

This reinforces our belief that in the AI era, almost all industries deserve to be reinvented.

AI Offers New Opportunities for Industry Reconstruction

For industries to merit reinvention, a prerequisite exists: new opportunities within seemingly established market structures.

When new opportunities arise, players are no longer evaluated by their internet-era market position or scale but start on an equal footing.

Encapsulating this phenomenon, industry reconstruction is apt.

So, what spurs this ongoing industry reconstruction?

The author contends that AI's gradual maturity and widespread business application have led to profound changes in industry elements, operational logic, and structure.

As individuals and entities begin leveraging AI to transform themselves and reshape pre-existing industry logic, new opportunities unfold.

This is evident from the emergence of deepseek and its subsequent disruption of the original market structure.

As deepseek gained traction, the model of players developing large models as competitive moats and ecosystems began to unravel. Increasingly, players accessed deepseek to gain a competitive edge.

We have seen players like Baidu and Tencent actively embracing deepseek, highlighting a level playing field.

This trend suggests that not only traditional industries but also the internet industry face reconstruction opportunities.

As AI deployment scales up, the current industry structure will be disrupted. With the enrichment and refinement of "AI+", only those who seamlessly integrate AI across industries and scenarios, fostering an AI ecosystem, will secure a competitive advantage in this new era.

Final Thoughts

As AI matures and undergoes a deep, comprehensive transformation of traditional and internet industries, we are witnessing the dawn of a new wave.

In the AI era, virtually all industries merit reinvention.

The rise of new-generation AI players and internet giants' comprehensive embrace of AI hint at this. As this AI-driven wave gains momentum, a vibrant, dynamic new business landscape is emerging.

In this new scenario, novel businesses will flourish, new players will rise, and fresh lifestyles will emerge.