A CEO that Never Sleeps and Earns $0 Took this Gaming Company to New Heights

The concept of virtual or digital CEO has been around for some time now, but nobody really imagined the power such a CEO would unleash if assisted by Artificial Intelligence (AI). A popular Chinese online gaming company NetDragon Websoft is in the news because of its AI CEO. A CEO that never sleeps, works round the clock and earns $0 in compensation— a startling development by every standard available in the era of ChatGPT Plus (GPT4). Why? This CEO is a 100% AI-powered bot that was onboarded only seven months ago as part of a pioneering move to transform corporate management using machine learning algorithms.

Who is Tang Yu?

NetDragon Websoft named Ms. Tang Yu their Rotating CEO last year in August. It not only managed to instill faith in AI’s transformational role in corporate governance, financial strategy management, and workplace compliance but also earned its organization some healthy stock market returns. According to a report, NetDragon’s share prices have climbed by 10%, and last week it outperformed the Hang Seng Index. While this success could be attributed to multiple factors in the stock markets, one thing is very clear— AI CEOs would become the norm in the near future for sure. This is something that Alibaba’com’s founder Jack Ma had predicted five years ago.

With AI CEO, companies like NetDragon could truly embrace a fully-digital working environment, conditioning their employees to thrive in competitive Web3 and Metaverse-centric ecosystems. AI CEOs like Ms. Tang Yu would emerge as real game-changers for corporate governance and compliance strategies, taking machine learning tools to greater heights. With AI, financial performance could become more resilient and sustainable in 2025.