After 15 year career with tech giants like IBM and Alibaba, this gifted farm boy is bringing AI back home

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Min Wanli, founder and chief executive of North Summit Capital, and former Alibaba Cloud vice-president. Photo: Handout

After a career with some of the world’s leading tech companies, including eight years at IBM in New York and Singapore, a stint with Google in Silicon Valley, and two years with Alibaba Group in Hangzhou, China, Min Wanli decided to go back to his roots.

In June he resigned as vice-president of Alibaba Cloud to start an investment firm specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for China's traditional industries, including agriculture.

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