iRTE2026: Agora CEO Zhao Bin proposes a five-level conversational capability framework, real-time interaction enters the conversational AGI era

What happened: At iRTE2026 in Beijing on October 23, Agora founder and CEO Zhao Bin proposed a five-level conversational capability framework, describing conversational AI's path from basic replies to deep relationship communication. Key numbers: Event held October 23. Framework has five levels, L1 to L5. Why it matters: Zhao said real-time interaction is expanding from person to person to person and Agent, and that conversational AI competition is extending from base model capability to context understanding, real-time interaction and task execution.

At iRTE2026 in Beijing on October 23, Agora founder and CEO Zhao Bin proposed a five-level conversational capability framework, describing conversational AI's path from basic replies to deep relationship communication.

Zhao said real-time interaction is expanding from person to person to person and Agent, and that conversational AI competition is extending from base model capability to context understanding, real-time interaction and task execution.