Yehong Zhu

Meet Yehong Zhu, founder & CEO of Zette AI, a startup transforming journalism with ethical AI.

Raised in Georgia, USA, and inspired by her journalist mother, Zhu studied at Harvard University and Cambridge before reporting for Forbes and leading product at Twitter. Seeing the challenges facing quality news, she launched Zette AI in 2020.

Zette AI licenses premium news content to AI companies, offering a more ethical, high-quality alternative to synthetic data and low-quality scraped content.

Under Zhu, Zette AI has won “Startup of the Year” at 2005 Startup Grind and partnered with 100+ publishers.

A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Zhu is a leading advocate for responsible AI, warning that “low-quality AI content is poisoning our feeds” and championing real journalism as the foundation for trustworthy technology.