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Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.

Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequisite that Moonshot dismantled in May to clear its own path to a Hong […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Published: 20 July 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 21 July 2026

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ethics.ai (20 July 2026), “Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.,” evidence record 12090, https://ethics.ai/record/12090 (originally published by The Next Web AI).

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