Kai-Fu Lee — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as CEO of 01.AI and Chairman & CEO of Sinovation Ventures.
Founded Sinovation Ventures (formerly Innovation Works), a venture capital firm, in 2009.
Founded 01.AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence company, in 2023.
Developed Sphinx, a large-vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system, in 1988.
Author of 'AI Superpowers' (2018) and 'AI 2041' (2021).
Served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council.
Earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988.

Biography

Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese computer scientist, investor, and author, recognized for his extensive contributions to artificial intelligence and technology leadership. He currently serves as the CEO of 01.AI, an artificial intelligence company he founded, and is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm he also founded.