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China's industrial AI push: Food delivery riders retrained to sell factory software

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Zhou Yuxiang, founder of Black Lake Technologies, is pioneering an AI approach for China's four million small factories by recruiting sales teams from food delivery riders. These riders, with their street smarts, are trained through an intensive 'devil boot camp' to sell the company's factory-management software, which includes AI agents for order processing and production scheduling. Zhou believes the true AI revolution will come from restructuring industries, not just task replacement, and sees China's manufacturing sector as the key testing ground for this vision. AI

IMPACT Highlights a novel approach to sales and market penetration for AI solutions in China's manufacturing sector.

RANK_REASON Article discusses a company's strategy and market approach to industrial AI in China, rather than a new product release or research finding.

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China's industrial AI push: Food delivery riders retrained to sell factory software

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Nicholas Gordon ·

    Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough

    China has millions of small factories—and almost no data on them. Yuxiang Zhou thinks AI can fix both.

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