At the "Deep Intelligence AI+ Real Estate Ecosystem Conference and 2026 New Product Launch" held in Shanghai on May 27, 2026, the focus was on the innovative application of AI technology across the broader real estate industry, including property development, senior living, housing rental, and property services.
Zhou Xin, Chairman of the Board of E-HOUSE ENT and Chairman of CRIC Deep Intelligence, reviewed the company's more than two-year journey in deeply cultivating AI. He candidly stated that since the comprehensive strategic transformation on December 12 two years prior, the company had been focused on the AI track for 532 days. "On December 12 two years ago, I made a decision to concentrate all available company resources on AI."
"On December 12 last year, we launched the real estate industry's first functional intelligent agent, which we call a digital employee. The core of the digital employee is that you pose the questions, and it provides the answers," Zhou Xin said. He noted that the large-scale implementation of AI agents in the industry only concentrated this year, while Deep Intelligence had laid the groundwork early and taken the lead in deployment, earning widespread recognition across the sector.
Zhou Xin introduced that at this launch event, Deep Intelligence unveiled four industry-first achievements, marking significant breakthroughs in the real estate AI domain. "Today, we will release the first vertical large model for China's real estate industry, the industry's first CoWork platform, the first GEO operational system, and finally, the world's first agent intelligent entity," he detailed. In his view, the high level of industry attention for this event stems from the transformative power of AI: "I believe everyone is here for AI, because AI will change thousands of industries." This series of achievements complements the entire real estate AI ecosystem chain, establishing a new foundation for the industry's digital and intelligent transformation.
Addressing the common industry question about the perceived gap in "AI+ real estate," Zhou Xin provided an in-depth analysis. He pointed out that from 2025 to 2026, domestic AI policies were intensively implemented across various fields, yet there was a notable absence of specific policies for "AI+ real estate."
On this matter, he stated plainly, "Twelve years ago, during the 'Internet+' era, many sectors were included, but real estate wasn't among them. Does that mean real estate is unimportant? Real estate is a pillar of the Chinese economy. Whether you acknowledge it or not, whether in the past, present, or future, it has always been there." He reaffirmed the industry's position: "I answered this question ten years ago: real estate is not just a sector; it's an industry." Simultaneously, he predicted that AI+ real estate would extend into various sub-sectors such as finance, building materials, consumption, law, and property services, offering broad space for integrated innovation.
Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the "China Real Estate Yearbook," Zhou Xin mentioned that leveraging its three decades of industry data, knowledge, and technological accumulation, Deep Intelligence generated an 818-page, 5-million-word AI draft for the yearbook's 30th-anniversary special issue in just 2 hours and 15 minutes within a closed network environment. After multi-dimensional review by over twenty industry experts, the draft received an average score of 8.91 points, with its overall quality and data accuracy highly commended. It required only minor corrections and refinements to be finalized, robustly demonstrating AI's substantial capability in professional real estate content creation and data analysis.