The Map Is Set, the Rules Rewritten | Google Maps x AI's Hunting Night: Beijing Summer Encore

Starting in March, AI Nao Hunting Night set out from Beijing

And came to Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou

At almost every stop, someone asked: When are you coming back?

So we made a last-minute call:

In the final week of the first half of the year, we're returning to Beijing for one more round

Coordinates known. Rules rewritten.

Welcome to

Google Maps x AI Nao Hunting Night — Beijing Summer Encore

Co-hosted by MasterConcept and Google Maps Platform

Re-understand the world. Re-locate yourself.

The map is already unfurled.

Now, who gets to define the direction?

✅ Same bar, same stand-up stage

✅ Same 8-minute founder free-for-all up top

✅ Same drinking and real-time roasting from the floor

✅ Same offline Product Hunt

Voting with golden spoons

Crowns a city champion and top 3 on the spot

🕙 Thursday, June 25

Check-in: 7:30 PM

Doors open: 8:00 PM

📌 Beijing · A secret hideout on the East Third Ring Road (address shared after application review and group admission)

3 Creator spots left — self-nominations welcome

As a Creator

You get 8 minutes — to explain what you're building, why you're building it, and why the world might need it

Then take the full room of Hunters coming at you

This round we're inviting a crew of Creators rewriting the coordinate system:

Someone exploring the new boundary between real and digital worlds through world models,

Someone trying to build how machines understand the world,

Someone taking their product to places where capybaras and flamingos roam

Creators, bring your product, idea, ambition, and more ambition. Apply below 👇

Hunter audience applications now open 👇

Note: Limited capacity this round — 50 seats. Final attendees will be selected by the organizers and notified by text and WeChat.

Each Hunter receives three golden spoons upon entry. They are your votes.

You can cast them for the product that moved you most, the wildest idea, the person with the most hustle, or someone you just want to grab a drink with after tonight.

The golden spoons decide the night's champion.

Thanks to MasterConcept and Google Maps Platform

for their generous support of this event!

Applications close 24 hours before the event

That's 6:30 PM on June 24

Due to limited venue capacity, this event uses a curated admission process. No walk-ins.

We'll notify this round's admitted Hunters by June 24

"Hunting Night" is a format we invented for the AI era

AI, outside of demo days, open mics, hackathons, and media interviews

Faces the audience. Shows the creation. Takes the heat.

Think Product Hunt, offline

Except the leaderboard's in a bar, upvotes are golden spoons, and comments are live humans asking hard questions

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June 25, 7:30 PM — Beijing

AI Nao Hunting Night — Let's Get Rowdy

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