{"id":102951,"date":"2025-08-30T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102951\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:41:05","slug":"ren-zhengfei-the-100-most-influential-people-in-ai-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/102951\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren Zhengfei: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Ren Zhengfei doesn\u2019t fear reinvention. The former military engineer, who grew up hungry as one of seven children in a dirt-poor family living in China\u2019s impoverished central province of Guizhou, founded Huawei in 1987 as a humble reseller of Hong Kong-made telephone switches. Before long, the firm moved into developing its own telecom equipment, cell phones, and laptops\u2014and later cloud computing and even EVs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Today, Ren leads one of the most consequential AI powerhouses on the planet. Huawei\u2019s new Ascend 910C AI chip now reportedly achieves up to 60% of performance in inference tasks when compared to Nvidia&#8217;s latest H100 AI-powered chips, recasting the firm as central to China\u2019s attempts to challenge U.S. tech dominance. Huawei also boasts the CloudMatrix 384, a China-based AI system built using domestic chipsets, and its own Harmony operating system. Despite being subject to strict U.S. sanctions, Huawei reported revenue of more than $118 billion in 2024, a 22.4% year-on-year rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ren Zhengfei doesn\u2019t fear reinvention. The former military engineer, who grew up hungry as one of seven children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[35030,554,733,4308,10710,11089,6200,35031,35032,86,49067,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-102951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-accolades","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-franchise","tag-list","tag-magazine","tag-special-project","tag-sponsorshipblock","tag-technology","tag-time100-ai-2025","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}