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Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race
Kai-Fu Lee, an AI expert and prominent investor who helped Google and Microsoft get established in China, says his new startup 01.AI will create the first “killer apps” of generative AI.
The startup’s founder and CEO is Kai-Fu Lee, a prominent investor who did pioneering artificial intelligence research before founding Microsoft’s Beijing lab and then leading Google’s Chinese business until 2009, a year before the company largely pulled out of the country. After emigrating from Taiwan to the United States and attending high school in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, he studied computer science at Columbia and Carnegie Mellon universities, receiving his PhD for a thesis involving the development of a speech recognition system that was cutting edge for the time. As the rise of the smartphone in China drove rapid growth in tech, Sinovation backed a number of successful Chinese AI startups, including Megvii, an image recognition firm, and TuSimple, a company working on autonomous trucking.
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