Kingsoft Group CEO answers 21Tech: This year marks the start of the golden decade for AI+SaaS.

21st Century Business Report's reporter Luo Yiqi reports from Shenzhen

At the performance exchange meeting held on March 18, the president of kingsoft group, Zhang Yong, answered the question of 21st century Business Report's reporter and analyzed the impact of the latest trend of AI large models on the SaaS industry.

He believes that the launch of DeepSeek has greatly reduced the cost of model use and ushered in the beginning of the AI popularization storm. "It has a profound impact on our industry. Robert (Xu Shaochun, Chairman and CEO of Kingsoft Group) mentioned at the beginning of this year that this year will be the golden decade of AI+SaaS, and the scenarios of AI transformation and promotion of SaaS are increasing."

Zhang Yong agrees with the industry's view that 2025 will be the first year of AI scenario application, and more and more excellent applications will be seen, which will see more and more effects brought by the transformation and upgrading of enterprise business processes, business models and operation models based on AI capabilities and AI agents.

He pointed out that the main components of enterprise AI growth flywheel include scenarios, models and data. In the past, the shortcoming of Kingsoft was the model, but it had scenarios and data. With the emergence of DeepSeek, the general capabilities of models and agents can be strengthened, which also brings confidence to Kingsoft Group to continuously develop models and agents to enhance the combination of scenarios and processes with complex agents in the future. He hopes that AI will become the core ability of Kingsoft.