Wang Feng: Company has been optimized from 1,100 to 400 employees due to AI, operational efficiency significantly improved

Recently, Wang Feng appeared as a guest on a talk-format podcast program, sharing insights on music creation, AI technology, and family life.

When discussing the changes AI has brought to the industry, Wang Feng held an open and accepting attitude: he revealed that his own company completed a personnel restructuring through technological upgrades, optimizing the team size from the original 1,100 people to 400, greatly improving overall operational efficiency.

On the topic of parent-child relationships, Wang Feng talked about having discussed heavy topics such as death and separation with his children. He said he realized early on that time spent with children is precious, and believed that the most crucial aspect of protecting children is giving them spiritual and emotional security.

In addition, Wang Feng also spoke freely in the program about deeper topics such as creative approaches, IP commercialization operations, and future development plans.

Once his remarks about using AI technology to reduce costs and improve efficiency spread, they sparked heated discussion among netizens and also evoked widespread public anxiety about AI taking over jobs.

Many netizens' first reaction was anxiety, lamenting that AI is seizing jobs on a large scale, while others directly criticized the company for relying on technology to carry out crude layoffs.

However, a rational analysis based on the actual situation shows that this personnel adjustment was not an indiscriminate dismissal of core creative personnel. Most of those optimized were in standardized, repetitive positions: basic promotional editing, data organization, administrative support, initial draft material production, routine review, and other assembly-line work. AI can quickly complete basic output in batches, and the company no longer needs to rely on large amounts of manpower to complete basic work.

Meanwhile, positions such as core songwriting and composition, live performances, customized art planning, and artist coordination—roles that require emotional depth, life experience, and unique expression—were all fully retained.

Wang Feng himself has always maintained an inclusive mindset toward AI. He has a viewpoint worth pondering: even if AI can mass-produce songs in the same style, original works polished with life experience, joys, sorrows, and emotions still possess irreplaceable scarcity value.

A search on the Tianyancha App shows that Wang Feng is associated with over 20 companies under his name, many of which are in active operation, including Nanjing Jam Culture Development Co., Ltd., Jiangxi FIIO Technology Co., Ltd., and others.