AI venture by Kai-Fu Lee building the Yi model series — high-quality bilingual (Chinese–English) LLMs.
What They Do
01.AI (零一万物) was founded in 2023 by Kai-Fu Lee. They released Yi-34B and Yi-6B as open-weight models, gaining wide adoption for their strong bilingual performance. Yi-Large and Yi-VL (vision language) are available via the Lingyiwanwu API.
Mission
Build world-class AI models bridging Chinese and English to make AI accessible globally.
FAQ
Kai-Fu Lee led AI labs at Apple, Microsoft Research Asia, and Google China before founding Sinovation Ventures. His book 'AI Superpowers' (2018) analysed China's AI ambitions.