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ROBIN

CREDIT: BAIDU

LI

POSITION: CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

COMPANY: BAIDU HEADQUARTERS: BEIJING, CHINA

Robin has been serving as the Chairman of Baidu since its inception in January 2000 and as CEO since February 2004. He has overseen its transformation into a Chinese AI powerhouse. Baidu describes itself as one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack of four layers, including cloud infrastructure, its in-house deep learning framework, self-developed foundation models and applications. Before founding Baidu, Robin worked as an engineer for Infoseek and as a senior consultant for IDD Information Services. Robin Li CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors Baidu

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