A year after abandoning its pre-training and AGI roadmap, merging its core R&D team into Alibaba Cloud, and pivoting to B2B, 01.AI founder and CEO Li Kaifu has publicly disclosed the company's key financial metrics and strategic direction for the first time in an interview with LatePost. Li Kaifu revealed that 01.Ai is currently dismantling its red-chip structure to prepare for an IPO, and expects to become China's first AI 2.0 company to achieve single-quarter profitability next year. With business growth surging, the team no longer wishes to be pigeonholed as one of the "Six Little Tigers" of large models; instead, they now call themselves "Golden Leopards" — a nod to their focus on real cash-generating ability. Financial data shows that 01.Ai…