Mr. Kaifu LEE

Chairman, Sinovation Ventures CEO, 01.AI

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AI. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$3 billion dual currency investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focusing on developing the next-generation deep tech companies. With a unique “VC+AI” model, Dr. Lee also leads the venture-building efforts of seven AI startups including the latest 01.AI, a new company capturing the LLM-driven AI 2.0 opportunity. Before founding Sinovation, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He co-chaired the Artificial Intelligence Council for the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and is highly recognized as “TIME100 AI” Top 25 AI Leaders in the World, 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons, and followed by over 50 million audiences on social media.

In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee built one of the first game-playing programs to defeat a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the world’s first large-vocabulary, speakerindependent continuous speech recognition system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, which was named the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. While with Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents and more than 100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Dr. Lee has been in artificial intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years. His New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (aisuperpowers.com) discusses US-China co-leadership in the age of AI as well as the greater societal impacts brought upon by the AI technology revolution. His 2021 co-authored book AI 2041 (ai2041.com) predicts how artificial intelligence will change our world in the next twenty years horizon.