Li Kaifu Reveals Zero-One Plan's 2027 IPO, Expanding Overseas to Avoid U.S. Focus on "Sovereign AI," Warns "Middle Managers Who Only Pass on Messages Will No Longer Be Needed"

According to Synced Beating monitoring, ZeroToOne Founder and CEO Kai-Fu Lee revealed in an interview with Huxiu that ZeroToOne is "planning to IPO in 2027" and is preparing for a new round of financing. In its international strategy, ZeroToOne clearly chooses to "avoid the U.S. market" and will focus on Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Africa, with a primary focus on the "Sovereign AI" track. Currently, Kai-Fu Lee has been invited to join the Kazakhstan National AI Commission to help address the challenge of Russian, Kazakh, and English mixed voice localization.

Regarding commercial implementation, Kai-Fu Lee revealed that the current "First Project" of ZeroToOne has a "conversion rate of about 10% to 15%." Facing large customers and government-end customers, ZeroToOne tends to adopt a "co-creation" and "Joint Venture (JV) establishment" model (such as jointly establishing Wanhive Intelligence with CP Group to promote AI-driven poultry farming).

ZeroToOne has internally implemented a flat structure with Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) and AI workers. In the management tool "Kai-Fu AI" used internally, the system can now read meetings, analyze organizations, discover key talents, predict employee attrition risks, and conduct strategic simulations. "Future management relies on intelligent agents penetrating through; middle management that only conveys information will no longer be needed," Kai-Fu Lee warned, stating that a management layer focused only on "managing people" will become extremely dangerous in the AI 2.0 era.