One day in 2017, Lee knocked on Wang Lihong's door and gave Wang Lihong a unique gift.
A "lover" is also an AI robot.
Here is the scene in Wang Lihong's "AI Love" in 2017, Kai-Fu Lee not only contributed his first MV appearance in his life, but also showed his signature elegant smile in the camera. Yes, it is the industry well known as "open compound smile".
The cross-border cooperation between the entertainment industry and the technology circle was very trendy at that time.
It's a bit embarrassing though.
For Wang Lihong, the AI theme has further consolidated the personality of its Kochi star, and as for how AI is or how it will develop in the future, after all, it is not a professional category, and it does not matter.
But not for Kai-Fu Lee.
Everyone knows that Kai-Fu Lee at that time was the first person to promote AI, not only was he the first person in China to advocate AI to change the world, but also published a book "Artificial Intelligence" in that year, and declared that "I am not Kai-Fu Lee, I am artificial intelligence." ”
The MV effect of "AI Love" itself is related to Kai-Fu Lee's artificial intelligence authority, for example, Lee Has complained that this is the most bizarre MV he has seen in recent years, there is Kai-Fu Lee in the MV, and Lee Kai-fu also takes a needle to prick a female robot.
At the same time, artificial intelligence has experienced many years of cold winter in the follow-up, which has also made Kai-Fu Lee's forward-looking discussion and optimism appear pale and weak.
However, in 2022, Wang Lihong collapsed from a high-quality star in Kochi overnight, and artificial intelligence also walked out of the previous ups and downs and became the darling of the secondary market.
After years of cultivating the AI track, Kai-Fu Lee will finally wait for an AI company that is about to IPO - Innovative Qizhi.
Just look at how long the "compound smile" can laugh this time.
Take advantage of the opportunity to go to Hong Kong
On the evening of January 3, Chuangxin Qizhi delivered the watch to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and sprinted to Hong Kong for IPO.
According to public information, Innovation Qizhi was established in 2018 to provide artificial intelligence overall solutions for manufacturing, retail, finance and other industries with the two-wheel drive mode of "technology products" + "industry scenarios". Kai-Fu Lee is the chairman of Innovation Chi Chi Chi, and Kai-Fu Lee's Innovation Factory is now the largest institutional investor.
The significance of innovative qizhi to Kai-fu Lee is more than that.
In September 2016, under the leadership of Kai-Fu Lee, Innovation Factory established the Artificial Intelligence Engineering Institute, which is committed to using cutting-edge AI technology to provide enterprises with artificial intelligence products and solutions. Innovative Qizhi was born in the innovation workshop and the artificial intelligence engineering institute of the innovation workshop, which is equivalent to Kai-Fu Lee's "pro-son" in the artificial intelligence track.
This time to go public in Hong Kong, Kai-Fu Lee finally waited for the possibility of falling in the artificial intelligence track.
However, it is worth noting that this is the second time the table of innovative Qizhi.
In June last year, Chuangxin Qizhi submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for listing on the Hong Kong stock market, but failed to make the trip halfway through.
At this time, the table is handed over again, perhaps, Kai-Fu Lee is taking advantage of the situation.
Just a few days ago, SenseTime successfully went to Hong Kong for an IPO, becoming the first AI stock, and in only four trading days, it created a myth of doubling the stock price and detonated the capital market.
Obviously, under the "cardiotonic agent" of SenseTime, it is an excellent time point for the AI unicorns lined up for listing. Innovative Qizhi naturally also looks at this window period.
After all, the current AI still fails to produce positive hematopoiesis.
Still losing money
According to the prospectus citing Frost & Sullivan, according to the 2020 revenue ranking, Innovation Qizhi is the third largest AI technology-driven solution provider in China's enterprise AI solution market, and the largest AI technology-driven solution provider in China's manufacturing AI solution market.
However, it is still far from profitable and innovative Qizhi.
According to the prospectus, the losses of Chuangxin Qizhi in the period from January to September 2018 to 2021 were 71.174 million yuan, 248 million yuan, 360 million yuan and 438 million yuan, respectively. Adjusted net losses were RMB45.378 million, RMB160 million, RMB144 million and RMB80.999 million, respectively.
Innovation Qizhi gross margin decreased from 62.9% in 2018 to 31.3% in 2019, 29.1% in 2020, and 30.9% in the first nine months of the year.
In addition, Kai-Fu Lee has high hopes for innovation Qizhi, once commenting that "in the four waves of artificial intelligence development predicted by the innovation workshop, the business of innovative Qizhi spans the second wave of commercial intelligence and the third wave of physical world intelligence", but from the perspective of financial data and the company's progress, innovation Qizhi may not meet Kai-Fu Lee's expectations.
In 2019, Kai-Fu Lee once introduced that Innovation Qizhi is expected to achieve revenue of $100 million within two years of its establishment, which is the fastest growth rate achieved by such startups so far.
According to the prospectus, Chuangxin Qizhi achieved revenue of 37.208 million yuan, 229 million yuan, 462 million yuan and 553 million yuan in 2018-2021 from January to September 2021, respectively, failing to achieve "100 million US dollars in revenue within two years of establishment".
At the same time, Kai-Fu Lee further expected in 2019 that Innovation Qizhi would be listed in less than two years, with a valuation of between $1 billion and $2 billion.
But from today's point of view, the same has not been fulfilled.
But fortunately, it is not too late, it depends on whether the road to the Hong Kong IPO can be smooth.
Perhaps at that time, the outside world can see the long-lost "open compound smile".
(Source|.) AI Blue Media Collection Author |Ye II)