New Executives of 01.AI Make Their Debut! How Is Kai Fu Lee Driving AI Application in ToB 2.0?

Zhiyi Wanyi recently welcomed a new round of executive appointments. The three executives, co-founder Shen Pengfei, Vice President of AI Models and Professional User Products Zhao Binqiang, and Vice President of International Business and AI Consulting Ning Ning, gathered together, marking the company's comprehensive layout and rapid advancement in the ToB (business-to-business) business field. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee emphasized in an internal speech that enterprise AI transformation must be led by the CEO, ensuring that AI is deeply integrated into core business processes to truly deliver value.

The newly appointed executives each bear great responsibilities. Shen Pengfei will be responsible for the expansion of domestic ToB and ToG businesses. With 26 years of rich experience in the IT and internet fields, he previously worked at Baidu Intelligent Cloud. As the "commander," he will work with partners to build strategies and promote the implementation of AI solutions.

Zhao Binqiang was appointed as Vice President of AI Models and Professional User Products. He has 17 years of experience in the internet algorithm and AI fields and was a senior algorithm expert at Alibaba. He will be fully responsible for the research and development of the company's core algorithms for large models and the development of professional Agent applications to support the technical needs of ToB businesses.

Ning Ning is responsible for international business and AI consulting, driving multiple national-level AI projects to help enterprises transform AI capabilities. His team has embedded technology and consulting into customers' core businesses, bridging the "last mile" of AI strategy.

This executive adjustment marks an important step for Zhiyi Wanyi in transitioning its ToB business system from product-oriented to systematic operations. The company plans to transform AI capabilities from the experimental stage to practical applications, building an open and scalable enterprise-level AI operating system based on the "Wanzhi Enterprise Large Model Platform." The upgrade of the Wanzhi platform has supported applications across multiple industries and has deployed more than 30 types of "super employee" AI Agents.

In the domestic market, Zhiyi Wanyi has collaborated with companies such as AIA Insurance and ZhiLian Recruitment to build several industry leading projects. Internationally, the AlemLLM language model jointly launched by Zhiyi Wanyi and Kazakhstan has become a successful cooperation example under the "Belt and Road" initiative. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee stated that in the future, Zhiyi Wanyi will take AI Agents as an entry point, striving to make AI a powerful driver for enterprise transformation.

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