Leding Li
李乐丁
Leding Li is a veteran Chinese technologist best known for his twelve-year tenure at Baidu, where he served as a principal architect — six years in search infrastructure and six years in cloud services — after joining in 2010 . He later held the title of senior principal architect and was also Baidu Aladdin's chief architect, giving him deep exposure to two of the tech industry's largest-scale infrastructure buildouts . Since leaving Baidu, he has become a frequent guest on the Crossing podcast, where his 2024 episode "I Want to Shatter Your Unrealistic Fantasies About AI" became the channel's most popular show that year, drawing audiences for his methodical, engineering-grounded analysis of generative AI, Silicon Valley strategy, and AI entrepreneurship .
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"2024: Who's Still Actively Investing in AI?"
"Press Releases Are Dead, Long-Form Podcasts Rule" | Lei Jun and Elon Musk's Shared Choice
Podcasts: The New Favorite of Tech Bigwigs.
"I Want to Shatter Your Unrealistic Fantasies About AI, and Rebuild a Correct Understanding" | Podcast
The most knowledge-dense episode of "Crossing" podcast ever is here!
"I Want to Shatter Your Unrealistic Fantasies About AI and Rebuild a Proper Understanding" | A Conversation with Leding Li, Baidu Principal Architect in the Trenches
