Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley

Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures
that manages a 2 billion dollar dual currency investment fund
with a focus on developing the next generation of Chinese
high-tech companies. He is the former President of Google China
and the founder of what is now called Microsoft Research Asia, an
institute that trained many of the AI leaders in China, including
CTOs or AI execs at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, and Huawei.
He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world
by TIME Magazine. He is the author of seven best-selling books in
Chinese, and most recently the New York Times best seller called
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.
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