A year after abandoning the pretraining and AGI path, moving its core research team to Alibaba Cloud, and pivoting to B2B, 01.AI founder and CEO Kai-Fu Lee sat down with LatePost for his first public disclosure of the company's financials and strategy. Lee revealed that 01.AI is currently dismantling its red-chip structure in preparation for an IPO, and expects to become the first Chinese AI 2.0 company to achieve a profitable quarter next year. With revenue growth surging, the team no longer wants to be lumped in with the "Six Little Tigers" — the half-dozen prominent Chinese large-model startups — but instead sees itself as a "money leopard," an animal that prizes real cash-making ability.