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01.AI

Foundation Models

Chinese AI company founded by Kai-Fu Lee, now selling enterprise AI products for sales, investment and operations alongside its Yi open models.

Total funding—

Valuation—

Employees—

Founded2023

HeadquartersBeijing, China

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• TrueNorth AI Decision Platform Platform

  Platform for building enterprise decision and analysis agents on 01.AI's models.

• Yi Model API Sold on its own

  01.AI's open-weight large language model family (Yi-6B/9B/34B, including 200K-context variants), released under Apache 2.0 for commercial and research use; also served through 01.AI's own hosted platform, platform.lingyiwanwu.com, whose playground access is by whitelist application rather than public self-serve.

Inside TrueNorth AI Decision Platform

• Boss AI Application

  Agent product for executives that turns company data into tracked decisions and action items.

• TopSales AI Application

  Agent product for sales teams covering lead research, outreach and follow-up.

• Investor AI Application

  A decision platform for investment, M&A and strategic-opportunity judgment that integrates market, financial and research data, validates investment theses, and surfaces due-diligence risks for investment committees.

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01.AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSalesforcePublic · $196.1BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, sales outreach and 1 more; 01.AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIInception42PrivateTrueNorth AI Decision Platform and Alpha do comparable work on financial analysis; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareXXiao-iPublicYi and Hua Zang LLM Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; scale not recorded for either.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPresightPublic · $5.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, financial analysis and 2 more; 01.AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCopy.aiAcquired ($13.9M deal)Overlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, sales outreach and 1 more; 01.AI's scale not recorded; Copy.ai is acquired, with no independent scale.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGenesysPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, sales outreach and 2 more; scale not recorded for either.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUpstagePrivate · $958.8MYi and Solar LLMs both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNiCEPublic · $6.5BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, financial analysis and 2 more; 01.AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRoxPrivateTopSales AI and Rox Revenue Agents do comparable work on sales outreach; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareZZoomPublic · $28.7BTopSales AI and Bonsai by Zoom do comparable work on sales outreach; 01.AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoherePrivate · $7BYi and Cohere Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSASPrivateTrueNorth AI Decision Platform and SAS Fraud Decisioning do comparable work on financial analysis; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BYi and Claude API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BOverlaps on data analysis, model inference and text generation; 01.AI's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrestaPrivate · $1.6BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis and workflow automation; 01.AI's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaichuanPrivate · $2.8BYi and Baichuan Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TYi and Gemini API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BYi and StepFun Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 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01.AI's scale not recorded.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BYi and AI21 Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPegasystemsPublic · $6.1BOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis and workflow automation; 01.AI's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)Yi and xAI API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOtter.aiPrivateTopSales AI and Otter AI Sales Notetaker do comparable work on sales outreach; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRobinhoodPublic · $108.6BTrueNorth AI Decision Platform and Robinhood Agentic Trading do comparable work on financial analysis; 01.AI's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BYi and Kling AI Developer API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHaptikAcquired ($112M deal)TopSales AI and Interakt do comparable work on sales outreach; 01.AI's scale not recorded; Haptik is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMoonshot AIPrivate · $35BYi and Kimi Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BYi and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.3 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BYi and FLUX API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.Shared product typeCompareHHebbiaPrivate · $700MTrueNorth AI Decision Platform and Hebbia Matrix do comparable work on financial analysis; 01.AI's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BYi and MiniMax Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.2 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedYi and Nous Portal both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, API service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHHumainPrivateOverlaps on agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 1 more; scale not recorded for either; ships API service, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.4 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Sources

Valuation

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable priced round found. Searched: stockanalysis.com's private-company pages, which footnote each valuation to the announcement that priced it; the company's own newsroom; and named press coverage. Coverage says only that a previous round valued it at "about $1 billion", with no round, date or announcement named.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

Homepage leads on "Make AI Work" and "Turn AI transformation into measurable business outcomes", with Boss AI, Investor AI and TopSales AI as the products; the Yi releases appear in the timeline rather than as the pitch.

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