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- Robin LiRobin Li (李彦宏) is a Chinese technologist and businessman who co-founded Baidu in 2000 and has been its chief executive since 2004. He is best known for the company's search business and its ERNIE AI models.
- Sam AltmanSam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. He ran the startup Loopt, was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and was removed as OpenAI’s CEO in 2023 before returning days later.
- Su HuaSu Hua is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded Kuaishou in 2011 and later stepped down as CEO, remaining involved in board leadership during the transition.
- Sundar PichaiIndian-born American executive who rose from leading Google Chrome and Android to become CEO of Google and then Alphabet, and who has overseen the company's push into AI, including Bard and Google DeepMind.
- Wang XiaochuanChinese computer scientist and entrepreneur who built Sogou Search and the Sogou input method, led Sogou as CEO through its New York listing, and later founded the AI company Baichuan.
- Wojciech ZarembaWojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist who co-founded OpenAI in 2015. He later led teams working on GPT models, GitHub Copilot and Codex.
- Yang ZhilinChinese AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Moonshot AI in Beijing in 2023 and runs it as CEO; the company released the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 and K3 models.
- Yan JunjieYan Junjie is a co-founder and chief executive officer of the Chinese AI company MiniMax, which he led to a Hong Kong listing on 9 January 2026; he was previously an executive at SenseTime.
- Zhang YaqinZhang Yaqin is an electrical engineer and technology executive who spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft, served as president of Baidu from 2014 to 2019, and joined Tsinghua University in 2019 as a chair professor of intelligent science.
- Zhang YimingChinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded ByteDance in 2012 and led it as CEO until November 2021, when he handed the role to co-founder Liang Rubo and remained founder and chairman.
- Zhou ZhihuaZhou Zhihua is a Chinese computer scientist at Nanjing University who works on ensemble learning, weakly supervised learning and multi-label learning. He founded the LAMDA institute there, serves as a university vice president, and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025.