Lab profileExited the frontier race
01.AI (零一万物)
Frontier ExitTotem · Sunset numeral
Known for: Kai-Fu Lee's startup that left the frontier-pretraining race; its core team was absorbed into Alibaba, leaving an enterprise/archive footprint.
Founded by Kai-Fu Lee (李开复), incubated by Sinovation Ventures. Exited frontier pre-training Q1 2025.
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Revenue
Not active race
Frontier exit Q1 2025
via Atlas estimate
ARR
N/A
Archive context; no active frontier revenue signal
via Atlas estimate
Valuation
$1B
$1B+ peak valuation before frontier pre-training exit
Funding raised
$0.3B
~$300M total known funding
Notable alumni & departures
News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
ISR 1 hour
Strategic investmentMay 29, 2026
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01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物)'s Kai-Fu Lee positions the lab as 'China's Palantir' and targets a profitable quarter by 2026.
Kai-Fu Lee tells staff 01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物) will emulate Palantir and become China's first AI 2.0 company to break even
PartnershipMay 26, 2026
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01.AI (Chinese: 01.AI) wins a ¥150M AI contract from an unnamed client.
01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物) Lands ¥150M AI Contract