Kai-Fu Lee
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Kai-Fu Lee is the founder and CEO of 01.AI (零一万物), one of China's "six little tigers" of large-model AI startups, and chairman of Sinovation Ventures (创新工场) . He launched 01.AI in March 2023 under the banner "Project AI 2.0," framing it as China's first chance to compete at the platform level in AI—a market he described as "ten times bigger than mobile internet" . The company released its first closed-source model, Yi-Large, in May 2024, integrated into its consumer productivity tool Wanzhu . Lee has been notably direct about the challenges of age in a youth-dominated field; when asked about being China's oldest large-model founder, he responded that he hoped to offer "experience accumulated with age, not a loss of technical control" . His career spans earlier stints including as founding president of Microsoft Research Asia , and he remains active across both Chinese and U.S. tech circles .
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The Unforgettable Series C Funding of Moonshot AI
A stroke of genius.
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If Kimi ever goes public, will the bell-ringing photo look very different?
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Where does the money come from?
暗涌Waves·Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: From Leading Microsoft's Transformation to His Analysis of the Future of AI Agents | Bolt Picks
From "knowing everything" to "learning everything."
线性资本·Under the China-US AI Gap, To B or Not To B — Here's What Kai-Fu Lee Thinks
A condensed summary.
暗涌Waves·Two Roads Diverge, But You Can't Travel Both | 2024 · Under 36
Make your choice.
暗涌Waves·Looking Back at AI's "May": The Five Most Important Little Things | Attent!on Tech Notes
The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed.
云启资本·China's LLM Funding War: The Quick Death of Romance
Do the investors regret it?
暗涌Waves·When a Male Celebrity Decides to Become a VC | Is Silicon Valley Burning?
"Life can be far broader than you imagine."
暗涌Waves·Why "Copy to China" Is Hard to Replicate, and Where China's LLM Opportunity Lies
Recently, Bai Zeren, Senior Investment Director at Linear Capital, sat down with *Jazzyear* to share his views on the entrepreneurial opportunities brought by ChatGPT. When it comes to the domestic market for large language model startups, Linear Capital remains optimistic. "While the engineering detours and challenges will take time to work through, the probability of Chinese companies producing something with 80% of ChatGPT's capabilities within two to three years is quite high — even if surpassing what OpenAI has already built will be difficult."
线性资本·Kai-Fu Lee is raising an AI 2.0 company — and it won't just be a Chinese ChatGPT clone.
"This will be China's first opportunity to compete at the platform level in AI — ten times bigger than mobile internet."
暗涌Waves·Zhuiyi Technology Closes $41 Million Series C to Accelerate Industrial AI Transformation
From Enterprise Intelligence to Industrial Intelligence
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