Wang Xiaochuan
Wang Xiaochuan is the founder and CEO of Baichuan Intelligence, which he started in April 2023. He previously founded and led Sogou, once China's second-largest search engine operator, before launching Baichuan to build large language models. Under his leadership Baichuan raised about $700M in July 2024 at a valuation above $2.7B and has pushed into medical and industry-specific AI.