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Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee

Founder of 01.AI; Chairman of Sinovation Ventures

Google China president 2005-2009; Apple, Microsoft Research Asia, SGI; PhD CMU CS (speech recognition)

About Kai-Fu

Kai-Fu Lee founded 01.AI in 2023, the lab behind the Yi family of open-weights models (Yi-34B, Yi-Large, Yi-Lightning). Previously president of Google China and SVP at Apple. Long-running figure in AI investing via Sinovation Ventures, and author of the influential book "AI Superpowers".