Sheng Fu

Sheng Fu is the CEO of Cheetah Mobile and a prominent AI entrepreneur who spent a decade at the company after it acquired his startup in late 2014, departing on the ten-year anniversary of that deal in December 2024 . He drew wide attention in mid-2023 for a public WeChat Moments spat with GSR Ventures partner Allen Zhu over the prospects for large language model startups, with Zhu dismissing the opportunity while Fu argued that half of Silicon Valley was already building around ChatGPT . Fu positioned himself as an optimist on AI application layers, predicting in early 2024 that the year would bring "a wave of AI large-model applications" and produce category-defining apps on the scale of Didi or Meituan . His pivot into AI was reportedly sparked by a personal experience with ChatGPT's reasoning ability—when the model correctly inferred that his dog was named "Sanwan" after a 30,000-yuan veterinary bill . Elsewhere's corpus does not cover his background prior to 2014 or his post-Cheetah Mobile plans in detail.