In 2001, Max Yuan gave up his promising career at HP & Microsoft and started up his own company "Xiaoi", with the dream and ambition of changing peoples’ lives. Today, the company has become a world’s leading smart machine technology supplier and platform operator under his lead. Xiaoi has won domestic honor such as “China Excellent Software of 2014”, “2013/2014 China Audio Innovative Product”and “Golden Award of CIIF 2014”, as well as worldwide recognition. Tom Austin, a world renowned analyst in smart machine, considers Xiaoi as the world’s top 3 regarding the application of smart machine technologies. In 2014, Max Yuan was invited to deliver a speech on how smart machine could drive the Internet economy of China.