100 MOST INFLUENTIAL
100 PEOPLE IN GLOBAL AI
27 SPEAKERS
COUNTRY DISTRIBUTION
Robin Li
李彦宏
Co-founder & CEO
Baidu
Co-founder and CEO of Baidu, leading the company's transformation into an AI-first platform anchored by the Ernie large model family and Apollo autonomous driving stack.
Pony Ma
马化腾
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Tencent
Founder of Tencent, steering one of China's largest internet conglomerates and its Hunyuan large model and cloud-AI ecosystem.
Zhang Yiming
张一鸣
Founder
ByteDance
Founder of ByteDance, the company behind Douyin and TikTok and a major force in recommendation AI, multimodal models, and Doubao.
Lei Jun
雷军
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Xiaomi
Founder of Xiaomi, driving a 'Human × Car × Home' AI strategy across smartphones, IoT, and electric vehicles.
Wang Chuanfu
王传福
Founder, Chairman & CEO
BYD
Founder of BYD, the world's largest new-energy vehicle maker, pushing intelligent driving and embodied AI at industrial scale.
Zhou Hongyi
周鸿祎
Founder & Chairman
360 Group
Founder of 360, an outspoken voice on AI safety in China and architect of 360's large-model and AI search products.
Kai-Fu Lee
李开复
Chairman & CEO
Sinovation Ventures / 01.AI
Founder of Sinovation Ventures and 01.AI, longtime AI scientist and investor shaping China's foundation-model landscape.
Wang Xiaochuan
王小川
Founder & CEO
Baichuan AI
Sogou founder turned LLM entrepreneur, leading Baichuan AI's open and closed large language models.
Yang Zhilin
杨植麟
Founder & CEO
Moonshot AI
Founder of Moonshot AI, creator of the Kimi assistant and a leading researcher on long-context language models.
Wang Huiwen
王慧文
Founder
Light Years Beyond
Meituan co-founder who launched Light Years Beyond, an early flagship of China's large-model startup wave.
Zhang Peng
张鹏
CEO
Zhipu AI
CEO of Zhipu AI, commercializing the GLM and ChatGLM series spun out of Tsinghua's KEG lab.
Yin Qi
印奇
Co-founder & CEO
Megvii
Co-founder and CEO of Megvii, a pioneer of computer vision and AIoT systems in China.
Xu Li
徐立
Co-founder & CEO
SenseTime
Co-founder and CEO of SenseTime, leading its SenseNova large-model platform and AI infrastructure business.
Zhu Long
朱珑
Founder & CEO
YITU Technology
Founder of YITU Technology, working on visual intelligence, healthcare AI, and domain-specific large models.
Yu Kai
余凯
Founder & CEO
Horizon Robotics
Founder of Horizon Robotics, designing edge AI chips and autonomous driving compute platforms for global automakers.
Qi Lu
陆奇
Founder & CEO
MiraclePlus (奇绩创坛)
Veteran technologist who led Microsoft, Yahoo, and Baidu AI; now mentors China's next generation of AI founders through MiraclePlus.
Wang Jian
王坚
Founder
Alibaba Cloud
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and founder of Alibaba Cloud, architect of City Brain and a long-time advocate for compute as infrastructure.
Joe Tsai
蔡崇信
Chairman
Alibaba Group
Chairman of Alibaba Group, steering the group's AI-first strategy, Qwen open models, and global cloud investments.
He Xiaopeng
何小鹏
Founder, Chairman & CEO
XPeng Motors
Founder of XPeng, pushing end-to-end autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, and flying cars.
Li Xiang
李想
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Li Auto
Founder of Li Auto, building intelligent EVs powered by in-house large models and an AI agent strategy.
Yan Junjie
闫俊杰
Founder & CEO
MiniMax
Founder of MiniMax, building multimodal foundation models and consumer AI products such as Talkie and Hailuo.
Dai Wenyuan
戴文渊
Founder & CEO
4Paradigm
Founder of 4Paradigm, pioneering enterprise AutoML platforms and the Shichuang large-model decision stack.
Zhou Ming
周明
Founder
Langboat Technology
Former deputy managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, now leading Langboat's vertical-domain large language models.
Yan Shuicheng
颜水成
Chief Scientist
Kunlun Tech / Skywork AI
IEEE/ACM Fellow and chief scientist driving Kunlun's Skywork foundation models and multimodal research.
Liang Wenfeng
梁文锋
Founder & CEO
DeepSeek
Founder of DeepSeek, pioneering high-efficiency open-source reasoning models that reset the global cost-performance frontier.
Wang Xingxing
王兴兴
Founder & CEO
Unitree Robotics
Founder of Unitree, leading low-cost humanoid and quadruped robotics manufacturing at global scale.
Jack Ma
马云
Co-founder
Alibaba Group
Founder of Alibaba and a vocal advocate for AI-era entrepreneurship, education and small-business empowerment.