Lei is the Co-founder and CTO of Fabi.ai, where he leads the development of AI-native business intelligence solutions. With a PhD in machine learning and over a decade of experience in the data domain, Lei has held significant roles, including positions at Yahoo, Walmart, Lyft (as Director of Data Science), and Clari (as Chief Data Scientist). His expertise spans machine learning, data engineering, and business analytics, with a particular focus on making data analysis more accessible and efficient. In this episode, Lei shares insights on the evolution of self-service BI and how AI is transforming business intelligence, drawing from his experience building Fabi.ai, a platform that combines SQL, Python, and AI to democratize data analysis. His work in developing "Vibe AI" (AI-powered BI) represents a significant advancement in making complex data analysis accessible to non-technical users while maintaining data accuracy and trust.

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"For the past decade, it's really difficult to make sure the self-service BI can work. And then now with AI, the worst part is that it can run properly, but the numbers are wrong." - Lei

"If you talk to anybody working in the BI space, like self-service BI, that has been termed for maybe for the past decade. But I have to say that is a false promise." - Lei

"We're saying that we really want those data team to be able to, like, say, what type of data is exposed to, like, say, less technical folks." - Lei

"In order to build AI native BI, I would say the focus should be how human interact with AI." - Lei

"We believe that, essentially, this BI system or, like, AI BI system would be more like a agent, and then it'll actually looking for, like, business opportunities and insight and surface to you." - Lei

"The one common theme I have been experiencing is that normally would work with other business stakeholders, could be marketing, could be operations, could be sales." - Lei

"We strongly believe that BI should be stored as code." - Lei

"Enterprise data tends to be very noisy, very complex." - Lei

"The semantics of itself becomes part of the context for the AI engine." - Lei

"Most organizations, the data, like the schema, the kind of business, like metrics and logic, has been constantly evolving." - Lei

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