Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee is one of the few voices on AI I actually pause to listen to, precisely because he has lived on both sides of the divide he describes. Born in Taiwan, trained at Carnegie Mellon, he built Microsoft Research Asia and ran Google China before turning investor and author. That rare dual fluency in American and Chinese tech gives his predictions a credibility most pundits lack. What impresses me most is his fluid reinvention, scientist to executive to thinker, without losing intellectual seriousness. As AI reshapes everything, I trust his perspective more than the usual hype, and I keep following where his thinking goes.

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Name (English)

Kai-Fu Lee

Name (Japanese)

李開復

Reading

かいふ・りー

Born

December 3, 1961 (age 64)

Origin

Zhonghe District, Taiwan

Occupation

entrepreneur / computer scientist / engineer / businessperson / information scientist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

High school

Oak Ridge High School

University

Carnegie Mellon University

Awards & achievements

• IEEE Fellow
• 2021 Asia's Most Influential Taiwan
• John Jay Award

• Xhttps://x.com/kaifulee
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu%20Lee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q699605

Tags

• entrepreneur
• computer scientist
• engineer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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