Kai-Fu Lee
Computer scientist, investor and author
Kai-Fu Lee is a computer scientist and investor who founded the venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures. He wrote AI Superpowers and AI 2041.
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Born 1961 in Zhonghe District, Taiwan
About Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese computer scientist, investor and author, born in 1961. He studied computer science at Columbia University and earned a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University. His work across AI research, development and investment spans over three decades. Earlier in his career he held executive roles at Apple, SGI and Microsoft, where he founded Microsoft Research China, later renamed Microsoft Research Asia. He was president of Google China from 2005 to 2009. In 2009 he founded the venture capital firm now called Sinovation Ventures, and in 2023 he founded the AI company 01.AI. His books include AI Superpowers (2018), which was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and AI 2041, written with Chen Qiufan (2021).