TLDR:
- Kai-Fu Lee’s AI venture, 01.AI, is launching a free productivity assistant called Wanzhi tailored for the Chinese market.
- The app can interpret financial reports, take meeting minutes, and speed-read books, providing quick synopses.
The Beijing startup founded by Kai-Fu Lee, a tech pioneer, is entering the AI market with the launch of Wanzhi, a productivity assistant aimed at aiding China in capitalizing on AI technology. The app, similar to Microsoft’s Office 365 Copilot, is tailored for the Chinese market and offers features such as interpreting financial reports, taking meeting minutes, and providing quick summaries of lengthy texts like Elon Musk’s biography. Lee emphasized the need for China to have its own version of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot released by OpenAI in 2022, which is currently banned in the country.
