01.AI (零一万物)
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.
News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物) shuts down its consumer-facing large model platform to pivot to enterprise AI solutions.
Kai-Fu Lee of 01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物) argues that human creativity and empathy are irreplaceable by AI, urging people to pursue fields without data.
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物) reportedly starts a new funding round and plans 2027 IPO.
01.AI (Chinese: 零一万物) launched four enterprise AI products including a decision-making platform and three role-based apps, reporting a 5x order volume increase.
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.
01.AI (Chinese: 01.AI) wins a ¥150M AI contract from an unnamed client.