Kai-Fu Lee
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Sep 18, 2026
Rachel CheungHOST
So who is building China's Palantir? What services do they provide? What do they actually do with their clients?
Peiyue WuGUEST
The most high profile advocators for China patenteers is Kai-Fu Lee, the former head of Google China.
Peiyue WuGUEST
Lee said his new company, ZeroOne.ai, is no longer interested in becoming China's open AI, but China's patenteers.
Peiyue WuGUEST
They are serving big companies globally.
Kai-Fu LeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, so I think there will be, uh, plenty of room for both countries to win.
Ed LudlowHOST
That was Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of O1.AI and chairman of Sinovation Ventures.
Ed LudlowHOST
This geopolitical battle to win the AI race has been thrown into a different light amid the growing debate over the pacing of the technology's frontier.
Ed LudlowHOST
Joining us is Andrew Ng, a pioneering AI researcher and founder of the Google Brain team, who's now the managing general partner at AI Fund and the founder of DeepLearning.AI, and a longtime adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford.
Kevin CarterGUEST
Bychuan's focused on healthcare AI.
Kevin CarterGUEST
And then you have one called ZeroOne.ai, whose founder is Kai-Fu Lee.
Kevin CarterGUEST
And Kai-Fu Lee is very much a visionary.
Kevin CarterGUEST
He was the CEO of Google China back when there was a Google in China.
Kevin CarterGUEST
But he also was a senior executive at Microsoft and a very early AI pioneer.
Alice HanHOST
So, you know, AI video editing, AI photo editing, you know, that the fastest growth, uh, AI app, uh, companies in those domains are coming from China globally.
Alice HanHOST
Uh, I was just listening to, to Kai-Fu Lee's interview in which he talks about investing in a, an AI app company that generates videos for handymen in the US.
Alice HanHOST
So handymen can upload photos, and it generates a video, and then it helps them, you know, connect with their clients.
Alice HanHOST
Um, so here I'm very, very optimistic that China can dominate in AI apps and by proxy can build the cultural relevance and soft power that we have seen, uh, in the last couple years.
Eric OlanderHOST
And, and again, the, the Chinese, are they gonna make money off the AI? Probably not.
Eric OlanderHOST
I mean, and Kai-Fu Lee was just on a Bloomberg podcast and said the same thing.
Eric OlanderHOST
But the services around the AI are gonna be the areas that they make a poop ton of money.
Eric OlanderHOST
And that's also gonna be very empowering for local businesses around the world-
Eric OlanderHOST
So how is Meta gonna sell this stuff to a bank in Vietnam? I don't know.
Eric OlanderHOST
I mean, we'll see how it shapes, but I'm not, I'm not as optimistic on that.
Eric OlanderHOST
And I, I tend to follow Scott Galloway and Kai-Fu Lee on these things.
Andrew PolkGUEST
Yeah.
Eric OlanderGUEST
Probably not.
Eric OlanderGUEST
I mean, and Kai-Fu Lee was just on a Bloomberg podcast and said the same thing.
Eric OlanderGUEST
But the services around the AI are going to be the areas that they make a poop ton of money.
Eric OlanderGUEST
And that's also going to be very empowering for local businesses around the world who, just the same way Linux produced huge quantities of service companies in every part of the world, I think you're going to see popping up in Nigeria, popping up in Nairobi.
Eric OlanderGUEST
So how is Meta going to sell this stuff to a bank in Vietnam? I don't know.
Eric OlanderGUEST
I mean, we'll see how it shapes, but I'm not as optimistic on that.
Eric OlanderGUEST
And I tend to follow Scott Galloway and Kai-Fu Lee on these things.
Andrew PolkHOST
Yeah.
Eric OlanderHOST
Yeah, that's really interesting.
Eric OlanderHOST
And these new one-person ventures, I was just listening to an interview with Kai-Fu Lee, who is the famous AI and tech entrepreneur in China.
Eric OlanderHOST
And he was talking about one-person ventures now with AIs all around.
Eric OlanderHOST
So it seems like you're onto something very important there.
XiaoqianHOST
Well, Dr. Ningning, I'd also like to connect your argument about access versus absorption more directly with 01.ai itself.
XiaoqianHOST
We know that 01.ai was founded by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee in 2023. and also initially became widely known internationally for the e-family of foundation models.
XiaoqianHOST
But listening to your presentation, I sense a kind of evolution in the company's thinking.
XiaoqianHOST
You said that as models improve and intelligence becomes cheaper, durable value increasingly lies in connecting intelligence to real institutions, real decisions, and also verified outcomes.
Ning NingGUEST
We are moving from building intelligence to building organizations that can use intelligence continuously.
XiaoqianHOST
So building intelligence to building organizations, that's a very interesting point.
XiaoqianHOST
What did you and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee learn from the first few years of the foundation model race that led the company to place greater emphasis on enterprise transformation and also real world deployment? Was there a particular moment when you realized that the model itself is no longer the biggest bottleneck?
Ning NingGUEST
So for the past few years, we see that the model rates move faster than almost everyone expected.
Danny JonesGUEST
Mm.
Julian DoreyHOST
But I don't know, like, I saw a lot of dystopian videos out of China during COVID where they'd have drones watching the house and stuff, and I, [sighs] some of my thought process on that is really influenced by that book Kai-Fu Lee wrote in 2018, AI Superpowers.
Julian DoreyHOST
It's about basically, like, the AI race-
Danny JonesGUEST
Mm
Chris DaigleHOST
But the reason he's here today is because his new book is out.
Chris DaigleHOST
It's called "The AI Instinct," and it's out from Wiley with a foreword by known thought leader in the AI space, Kai-Fu Lee.
Chris DaigleHOST
His argument is that AI has moved into a layer where our, our business instincts used to live, and that now AI is shaping what we notice and what we trust before our, our, our reasoning catches up.
Chris DaigleHOST
Now, we're gonna get into what that means for how you assign accountability, what a rule looks like when you've got 50 people using AI in your company every day or more.
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