On CCTV at Web Summit Qatar: Visual AI, the Gulf, and China

Youzu on CCTV at Web Summit Qatar 🇶🇦🇨🇳

Our second Web Summit, our first time in the Gulf — and the first time on China Central Television. Founder & CEO Nail Vali caught up with CCTV at the Doha edition of Web Summit to talk about where Youzu fits in the global e-commerce stack, and why two very different markets — the Gulf and China — are at the top of our roadmap.

What Nail covered

The platform, in one line

Youzu is a visual AI platform helping e-commerce retailers transform the entire user journey — visual search and recommendations, room intelligence for furniture, and interactive content production for any e-commerce.

The Gulf push

Doha was our debut in the region, but it's already producing partnerships. We're working with Snoonu, the local food-delivery leader, to bring visual search and recommendations into their experience.

Why China — even though China is great at visual AI

China is amazing with AI, especially visual AI. But a lot of e-commerces could still benefit from our solutions — especially furniture. Alibaba and Temu can build what we do. The rest of e-commerce can't.

The plan is a real China presence. We're working with Suzhou Industrial Park, where we'll most likely be incorporated and where local partners can help us with the part of the puzzle our team can't do alone — localization. Hiring is on the table too: computer vision, ML, sales, and marketing in China.

The thread that ties it together

We are democratizing enterprise-grade AI for retailers worldwide.