Kai-Fu Lee
Chairman & CEO, Sinovation Ventures
AI Strategy · Global Technology · The Future of Work
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China
Signature Topic
AI Strategy & Global Competition
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About Kai-Fu
Kai-Fu Lee is chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and one of the most widely heard voices on artificial intelligence outside the United States. He earned his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, where his dissertation produced one of the first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition systems.
He was the founding president of Microsoft Research Asia, went on to serve as president of Google China, and has held senior roles at Apple and SGI — a career spanning nearly every major phase of the industry.
His book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (2018) reframed the AI race as a contest of data and implementation rather than pure research, and AI 2041 (2021, with the novelist Chen Qiufan) projected that thesis two decades forward. He founded the large-model company 01.AI in 2023.
Keynote Topics
AI Superpowers: The Global Race for Artificial Intelligence
What AI Will and Will Not Take From Work
AI 2041: The Next Twenty Years
Building and Investing in AI Companies
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