Robin Li

Co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Baidu

Co-founded Baidu 2000; previously Infoseek; MS computer science SUNY Buffalo

About Robin

Robin Li (Li Yanhong) co-founded Baidu in 2000 and remains its chairman and CEO. Baidu was an early major bet on AI in China — the company spent more than a decade building Baidu Brain, then ERNIE, before LLMs became the consumer story. Owns one of the original patents on PageRank-style hyperlink analysis (predating Google's).