AI Native - The Mandate to Transform Your Company
In this book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee offers a clear roadmap for how to re-structure enterprises with powerful agentic AI at the center of the enterprise, and reveals the power and potential of using AI to tap into the hidden trove of knowledge inside companies - led by a strong CEO mandate. English copies will be released in fall 2026.
Pre-order Now: Amazon and Barnes and Noble for the U.S. or Amazon UK and Waterstones. eBook/Audiobook release on Sep 15. Hardcover on Nov 3.
Establish the CAIO role and make AI transformation accountable to the P&L
Build an AI decision hub so models truly understand the business
Cut through layers of reporting so the No. 1 leader sees operating truth
Rewrite organizational accountability so DRIs own operating outcomes
Start by Rewriting the P&L
The CEO leads personally to reshape the decision hub and execution path
Many AI projects, unchanged financials
Bottom-up pilots often create demos, not business impact.
The CEO must lead personally, appoint a CAIO reporting directly to the CEO, and define AI success by revenue, margin, cash flow, retention, productivity, and cycle time.
Lots of data, but models do not understand the business
Pushing enterprise data directly into a foundation model often leads to garbage in, garbage out.
01.AI builds the AI decision hub with four core components: the model as the brain, Ontology 2.0 as the business map, real-time context as GPS, and the operating system as the execution layer.
Many reports, distant truth
In traditional hierarchies, truth is filtered layer by layer.
Boss AI brings the CEO closer to operating reality through full-domain sensing, execution closure, strategic simulation, and organizational culture engines — making commitments traceable, risks visible, and talent observable.
More headcount, scattered accountability
Legacy organizations add people and layers, but accountability remains fragmented.
01.AI empowers DRIs with goals, boundaries, compute budgets, and multi-agent capabilities — turning them into micro-CEOs who can set direction, coordinate resources, and own outcomes.
Top-down Project Cases: Enter the Deep Waters of Transformation and Keep Delivering Value
Co-creating the Future of Sovereign AI
Partnering with Kazakhstan to build national-level sovereign AI
Key Outcomes
- Jointly developed AlemLLM, a Kazakh-language large language model
- Established the joint venture Q.AI, with a former Vice Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of Kazakhstan appointed as CEO
- Dr. Kai-Fu Lee was invited to join the AI Development Council chaired by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan issued a Presidential Decree adopting Dr. Kai-Fu Lee’s recommendation to advance pilot programs for AI-enabled education
- Explored AI implementation across multiple government sectors, including with the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee Holds In-Depth Exchanges on AI Development with Leaders from Countries Participating in the Belt and Road Initiative
Key Outcomes
- Vietnam Party General Secretary and State President To Lam met with 01.AI CEO Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
- Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met with 01.AI CEO Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
Government AI Drives Regional Development
Partnering with Sichuan Neijiang High-tech Zone to build an AI new quality productivity highland
Key Outcomes
The project represents an overall scale of more than RMB 150 million. Leveraging the industrial base, it will focus on the deep integration of large models and AI agents with local competitive industries, creating a new industrial hub.
Partnering with Wuhan Qiaokou District to co-build Hanjiangwan Digital Intelligence City
Key Outcomes
Leveraging its full-stack AI capabilities, the company will closely align with Qiaokou’s industrial layout and digital transformation needs, jointly building a strategic AI industry hub that extends across Central China and serves the nation.
Industrial AI Transformation and Growth
Partnering with Global 500 company Charoen Pokphand Group to build the Future Farm
Key Outcomes
The CEOs of both parties jointly launched the joint venture “Wanfeng Intelligence” to advance a five-layer integrated smart agriculture system, increasing automation from 20% to 40%, reducing mortality and culling rates by 5%, and enabling flexible production-sales coordination.
