Author of AI Superpowers; founder of 01.AI and Sinovation Ventures
Former head of Google China and Microsoft Research Asia, now a venture investor and author who writes about the US-China AI landscape and the labor effects of automation.
Websitekaifulee.com
#US-China AI#automation and work#venture investing
Key arguments & positions
Argues automation will hit routine cognitive work hardest and that care, creativity and human connection are where people keep an edge.
Describes US and Chinese AI as two parallel ecosystems rather than one race with a single winner.
Advocates open-weight models and low-cost inference as the route to broad adoption outside big labs.
Accomplishments
Founding president of Google China; earlier led Microsoft Research Asia and worked at Apple and SGI.
Founded Sinovation Ventures (2009) and the model company 01.AI (2023).
PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon for early speaker-independent speech recognition work.
