Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee (; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China.

Lee has worked as an executive, first at Apple, then SGI, Microsoft, and Google. He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, due to a one-year non-compete agreement that he signed with Microsoft in 2000 when he became its corporate vice president of interactive services.

He works in the Chinese internet sector and was the founding director of Microsoft Research Asia, serving from 1998 to 2000; and president of Google China, serving from July 2005 through September 4, 2009. After resigning from his post, he founded Sinovation Ventures, a venture capital firm. He created a website, () dedicated to helping young Chinese people in their studies and careers and wrote "10 Letters to Chinese College Students". He is a micro-blogger in China, in particular on Sina Weibo, where he has over 50 million followers.

In his 2018 book ''AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order'', Lee describes how China is rapidly moving forward to become the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI), and may well surpass the United States, because of China's demographics and its amassing of huge data sets. In a September 28, 2018 interview on the PBS ''Amanpour'' program, he stated that AI, with all its capabilities, will never be capable of creativity or empathy. Provided by Wikipedia