AI Native

"This is the guide every leader needs to figure out what to do with AI. As a pioneering computer scientist, successful founder, and influential investor, Kai-Fu Lee is uniquely positioned to understand the challenges and opportunities of smart machines for organizations. His advice is timely, strategic, and actionable."

"Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers on the subject of artificial intelligence. AI Native shows why organizations must rethink how they learn, organize, build IP, and thrive in this new era. It is a powerful call for an AI future where human expertise is amplified and value flows broadly across every company, every industry, and every country."

"Even in the C-suite at some of the world's biggest companies, the AI revolution is underhyped. Finally, here's a book for leaders who sense AI's vast potential but need a road map. As Kai-Fu Lee argues with brilliance and clarity, the boring parts of the business — your company's accumulated trove of knowledge — is where the extraordinary value is hiding, and you can tap into it by adopting AI, adopting it fast, and adopting it right."

"Kai-Fu Lee is a world-class researcher who realized very early that neural networks were the future of AI. He is also a leading investor, and an accomplished business leader, so he speaks with great authority when he describes how companies should incorporate AI and how people can remain relevant."

"Enterprises that integrate artificial intelligence thoughtfully will flourish; those that do not will fail. As an AI pioneer, executive, investor, and visionary, Kai-Fu Lee is exceptionally well positioned to explain what this moment demands. AI Native is a clear, urgent, and practical guide to redesigning organizations around abundant intelligence, while preserving meaning, dignity, and human purpose."

"Kai-Fu Lee has long been one of the clearest and most thoughtful voices on how AI is transforming business and society. In AI Native, he offers leaders a practical guide to reimagining how organizations work — and how people and AI can come together to solve meaningful problems and create lasting value."

"I hear the same question again and again from top executives: how do we turn AI pilots into real business results? Kai-Fu Lee answers that question with extraordinary clarity in AI Native: the key is not simply adopting new technology, but transforming the business itself — its workflows, decision rights, talent, data, and culture. This book is the operating manual for the largest economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution."

"Economists have long understood that organizations run on asymmetric information: those who act know what those who decide cannot see. Kai-Fu Lee understands that AI's most profound effect at the enterprise level is to attack that asymmetry at its root. Complex principal-agent structures are jettisoned as nearly free intelligence confronts the full set of unstructured data, making it accessible to everyone. AI Native turns that insight into a concrete, compelling operating model. Its account of giving leaders undistorted sight into their own companies is the most illuminating thing I have read on what cheap intelligence will truly do inside an enterprise."

"As a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor, Kai-Fu Lee has helped shape the AI revolution from its earliest days. With AI Native, he has written an essential guide for leaders building the next generation of great companies. Drawing on decades of experience, he shows that succeeding in the AI era demands not just deploying new tools, but transforming every company into an agentic enterprise by redesigning how they operate, innovate, and connect with customers."

"As machine cognition advances, human comparative advantage moves to the open-ended problems, where a person stands between the tool and the need it serves. Mastering this transformation takes more than layoffs. Leaders must move their organizations and workforces toward that work, where value is growing, and away from the tasks machines now automate. AI Native is written for the executives who must make that move."