Witness the "Leap" in action across the globe
Deep observations from the frontlines of AI in Silicon Valley and China
From studying under Zhang Daqian at age 10 to having work collected by the Taipei Palace Museum at 17, and now building a creative relationship with AI at 75 while facing early-stage Alzheimer’s, Lu Rongzhi’s story reveals another side of the AI era: technology is not only about efficiency, but also about dignity, creativity, and renewed vitality.
From solid-state batteries, lidar, and automotive chips to the multiple pivots of GOFA AI, Hexuan Capital founding partner Andy Zhang offers a rare dual perspective as both investor and entrepreneur on how to judge technology cycles before industries reach scale.
From producing more than 500 SEO articles in 35 days to causing a sharp drop in website health, then evolving through nine rapid iterations, Weiling Technology CEO Willy Yang’s experiment with three “Lobster AI employees” reveals what enterprises must learn about managing digital workers: safety boundaries, feedback loops, transparent collaboration, and specification-driven operations.
Many companies still treat tokens as a model usage cost. In the AI era, tokens are becoming the infrastructure for calling external intelligence. The real question is not how many tokens you save, but how much business outcome every token can create.
From GUI to CLI, the software industry is entering a quiet paradigm shift. As AI agents become major software users, entrepreneurs need to rethink what a product is, who the user is, and where competitive advantage will come from.