Kai-Fu Lee on Corporate Governance

Kai-Fu Lee's role is documented as: founder of 01.AI (2023); Chairman/head of Sinovation Ventures (formerly Innovation Works, founded 2009) A February 2026 interview describes Lee as heading Sinovation Ventures and as 'the founder of 01.ai,' actively discussing the company's strategy (research date: 2026-08-23).

Lee is the author of 'AI Superpowers' (2018) and co-author of 'AI 2041' (with Chen Qiufan, 2021), has served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global AI Council, and was named to Time's 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.

As of the February 2026 interview, Lee described 01.AI as actively engaged with traditional-industry clients on AI-agent adoption, though the source did not report specific revenue, client-count, or model-performance metrics for the company.