AI Native

The most expensive thing your company buys is human thinking. What happens when it becomes almost free? This is the single most consequential question facing business leaders for a generation, and many are struggling to answer it. AI is not simply another technology cycle but a fundamental transformation in the economics of business. Kai-Fu Lee has spent the past four decades pioneering AI in business from nearly every vantage point: as an AI researcher, senior executive at Apple, Microsoft, and Google, founder of Sinovation Ventures, and now CEO of 01.AI. Few authors can match his combination of technical expertise, business leadership, and international renown. In AI Native, he draws from this unique experience to offer a radical new roadmap for company leaders to navigate the AI agent revolution. With punchy, insightful prose, Lee dispels the “four lies” CEOs are being told about AI, including that it’s “just another technology cycle” and that “AI will let us shrink the workforce,” and argues that CEOs must assume responsibly themselves for seeing the AI transformation through successfully. Lee offers advice on how to structure teams with agentic AI and reveals the power and potential of using AI to tap into the hidden collection of knowledge contained inside companies and organizations. This is not a book about chatbots. It is a book about leadership. The future belongs to leaders who direct their companies before the market does. Authoritative and filled with clear, actionable advice, AI Native is the only book leaders need to navigate the defining management challenge of our time.