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AI Native

The Mandate to Transform Your Company
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As the cost of intelligence collapses, every organisation must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value. In his new book, AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041, Kai-Fu Lee offers a sweeping roadmap for how leaders can position... Read More
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As the cost of intelligence collapses, every organisation must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value. In his new book, AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041, Kai-Fu Lee offers a sweeping roadmap for how leaders can position their business for the AI age.

Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and writers.... Powerful. – Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

The most expensive thing your company buys is human thinking. What happens when it becomes almost free?

This is the single most consequential question facing business leaders for a generation, and many are struggling to answer it.

AI is not simply another technology cycle but a fundamental transformation in the economics of business. Kai-Fu Lee has spent the past four decades pioneering AI in business from nearly every vantage point: as an AI researcher, senior executive at Apple, Microsoft, and Google, founder of Sinovation Ventures, and now CEO of 01.AI. Few authors can match his combination of technical expertise, business leadership, and international renown.

In AI Native, he draws from this unique experience to offer a radical new roadmap for company leaders to navigate the AI agent revolution. With punchy, insightful prose, Lee dispels the "four lies" CEOs are being told about AI, including that it's "just another technology cycle" and that "AI will let us shrink the workforce," and argues that CEOs must assume responsibly themselves for seeing the AI transformation through successfully. Lee offers advice on how to structure teams with agentic AI and reveals the power and potential of using AI to tap into the hidden collection of knowledge contained inside companies and organisations.

This is not a book about chatbots. It is a book about leadership. The future belongs to leaders who direct their companies before the market does.

Authoritative and filled with clear, actionable advice, AI Native is the only book leaders need to navigate the defining management challenge of our time.

Book Details

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ISBN: 9781529147766

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Ebury Edge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 335g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO of Sinovation Ventures and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and co-author of AI 2041, which was named a best book of 2021 by The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times. Lee was formerly the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum, and was named to the Time 100 and Wired 25 Icons lists. He is based in Beijing.

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