Kai-Fu Lee is a world-class researcher who realized very early that neural networks were the future of AI. He is also a leading investor, and an accomplished business leader, so he speaks with great authority when he describes how companies should incorporate AI and how people can remain relevant * Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2024) and Turing Award winner *
This is the guide every leader needs to figure out what to do with AI… timely, strategic, and actionable * Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of HIDDEN POTENTIAL and THINK AGAIN, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking *
I hear the same question again and again from top executives: how do we turn AI pilots into real business results? Kai-Fu Lee answers that question with extraordinary clarity in AI Native: the key is not simply adopting new technology, but transforming the business itself — its workflows, decision rights, talent, data, and culture. This book is the operating manual for the largest economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution * Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford professor, co-author of best-selling The Second Machine Age, and co-founder of Workhelix. *
Economists have long understood that organizations run on asymmetric information: those who act know what those who decide cannot see. Kai-Fu Lee understands that AI’s most profound effect at the enterprise level is to attack that asymmetry at its root. Complex principal-agent structures are jettisoned as nearly free intelligence confronts the full set of unstructured data, making it accessible to everyone. AI Native turns that insight into a concrete, compelling operating model. Its account of giving leaders undistorted sight into their own companies is the most illuminating thing I have read on what cheap intelligence will truly do inside an enterprise * Michael Spence, Nobel laureate in economics and Dean Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business *
Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers on the subject of artificial intelligence. AI Native shows why organizations must rethink how they learn, organize, build IP, and thrive in this new era. It is a powerful call for an AI future where human expertise is amplified and value flows broadly across every company, every industry, and every country * Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO, Microsoft *
Even in the C-suite at some of the world’s biggest companies, the AI revolution is underhyped. Finally, here’s a book for leaders who sense AI’s vast potential but need a roadmap. As Kai-Fu Lee argues with brilliance and clarity, the boring parts of the business—your company’s accumulated trove of knowledge—is where the extraordinary value is hiding, and you can tap into it by adopting AI, adopting it fast, and adopting it right * Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google; bestselling author, The Age of AI *
AI Native is a clear, urgent, and practical guide to redesigning organizations around abundant intelligence, while preserving meaning, dignity, and human purpose. * Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies *
Kai-Fu Lee has long been one of the clearest and most thoughtful voices on how AI is transforming business and society. In AI Native, he offers leaders a practical guide to reimagining how organizations work—and how people and AI can come together to solve meaningful problems and create lasting value * Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO, AMD *
As a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor, Kai-Fu Lee has helped shape the AI revolution from its earliest days. With AI Native, he has written an essential guide for leaders building the next generation of great companies. Drawing on decades of experience, he shows that succeeding in the AI era demands not just deploying new tools, but transforming every company into an agentic enterprise by redesigning how they operate, innovate, and connect with customers. * Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce *
As machine cognition advances, human comparative advantage moves to the open-ended problems, where a person stands between the tool and the need it serves. Mastering this transformation takes more than layoffs. Leaders must move their organizations and workforces toward that work, where value is growing, and away from the tasks machines now automate. AI Native is written for the executives who must make that move. * David Autor, Department Head, MIT Department of Economics *

Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and a New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and co-author of AI 2041. AI 2041 was named a best book of 2021 by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Financial Times.

Lee was formerly the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He is the co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum and has been named to the Time 100 and Wired 25 Icons lists. He is based in Beijing.

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