Wang Xiaochuan

Wang Xiaochuan (; born 3 October 1978 ) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and former chief executive officer of Sogou. He has also founded Baichuan, an artificial intelligence company.

Early life and education Wang was born in 1978 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Wang began using computers and writing software when he was seven. Since elementary school, Wang received prizes in programming contests aimed at middle school students.

In 1990, Wang ranked NO.1 in the city-wide admission exam to Chengdu No.7 High School (middle school).

In 1993, Wang was admitted to Chengdu No.7 High School (high school) after winning the first prize in the National Mathematics Competition.

In 1996, he won a gold medal at the 8th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) and was admitted to Tsinghua University.

Career

Wang entered China's Internet startup sector while still an undergraduate student. In 1999, he participated in the creation of the online alumni directory of ChinaRen.com as a part-time technical manager. His work continued after ChinaRen. In 2003, after completing his postgraduate studies at Tsinghua University, Wang joined Sohu after ChinaRen was acquired by Sohu. Wang's talent attracted the attention of Charles Zhang, the founder and CEO of Sohu and Wang rose from senior technical manager to senior technical director, deputy president, senior vice-president, and CTO. At 27, Wang became the youngest Vice President of this company. Wang was appointed as the CTO of Sohu at the age of 31. which later became China's most popular input method, anchoring Sogou as China's No.2 Internet property by user numbers. In 2008, Wang proposed the "Input-Browser-Search" internet business model, namely the "three-stage rocket model".

In 2010, after facilitating the spin-off of Sogou from Sohu Wang became its CEO.

Two months after Wang took office in 2010, Alibaba invested $15 million in exchange for 10% of Sogou's shares. In 2013, Wang persuaded Tencent to invest $448 million in Sogou and merged Tencent's search department into Sogou."

On 9 November 2017, under the leadership of Wang, Sogou was listed on NYSE as ticker "SOGO", at a valuation of $5 billion.

On 15 October 2021, Wang resigned as CEO of Sogou and announced that he would open a new chapter in the medical field. In recent years, Wang has invested in the field of medical technology, including Dr. Chunyu, a listed company of telemedicine platform, a Chinese medicine consulting service Xiaolu traditional Chinese medicine, Airdoc Technology, the first "AI medical stock" listed in Hong Kong, and DeepCare, an AI oral imaging company. Wang wrote, "my curiosity about life science has been lingering in my mind for the past 20 years. In the next 20 years, if I can make my own contributions to the development of health care and life science, and to the improvement of public health, I will live a fuller life".

In April 2023, Wang founded Baichuan, an artificial intelligence company.

Wang was included in Time's 2024 list of the "100 Most Influential People in AI".