Kai-Fu Lee is currently the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the leader of 01.AI. He is also co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. His vision includes making AI more accessible and driving innovation in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision.
Lee emphasises the importance of self-supervised deep learning and its potential to drive a second golden era in AI investment. His doctoral dissertation focused on Sphinx, the first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent, continuous speech recognition system. He has written over 60 papers in computer science and co-edited readings in speech recognition with Alex Waibel.
Lee has held executive positions at Apple, Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, and Google. He was the founding director of Microsoft Research Asia and later served as the president of Google China from 2005 to 2009.
After leaving Google, Lee founded Sinovation Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focused on developing Chinese high-tech companies. He manages a $3 billion fund and has invested in numerous successful startups. His latest book, AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, co-authored with Chen Quifan, presents a roadmap for the opportunities and challenges presented by AI over the coming decades.