Genspark CEO Kun Jing: I Saw AGI, and I Hope I'm Wrong | BlueRun Ventures Family Headlines
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The latest AI Agent breakout hit is here. After launching its new Super Agent feature, Genspark hit $36 million ARR in just 45 days. Recently, Kun Jing, co-founder and CEO of Genspark, published a post from the perspective of an AI entrepreneur and enthusiast, calling on people to face the reality that humans will inevitably spend their future alongside AI — and to start learning and using AI today.
BlueRun Ventures was Genspark's angel and Series A investor. We share Kun's perspective, so we're republishing this article to help people explore ways to coexist with AI. Here's the full text:
"AI will affect 99% of people's jobs. White-collar work may be eliminated. New graduates could be unemployed on day one. This deserves our close attention — not just for ourselves, but for our children."
This may not be an article many people will see, but it's my sincere sharing as an industry practitioner, an ordinary person, and the father of a 12-year-old boy. I hope everyone who reads this, especially families with children, can benefit from it.
My name is Eric Jing (co-founder & CEO of Genspark). Since joining Microsoft as a software developer in 2006, I've worked in search, AI, chatbots, and AI hardware for nearly 20 years. I've fought my way through intense competition — I was a founding member of Microsoft Bing search, built AI voice devices from scratch that sold over 40 million units, and created a $5.5 billion company. Now I'm co-founder and CEO of Genspark, a $500 million AI startup.
From my first day studying computer science, my dream has been to change the world through technology. Over the past nearly 20 years, I've witnessed incredible transformation. Since 2023, I've been personally experiencing and trying new AI products almost every day. In the early days of my entrepreneurship, I used over 300 AI products (my main sources were Twitter and Product Hunt). To this day, I still insist on using 1-5 AI products every single day without interruption.
I have many AI practitioners and enthusiasts around me, but I've found that even this group may not have enough time to experience AI products as broadly as I have. Many may feel they can understand products just by reading news or watching demo videos. But from my personal experience, there are fundamental differences between hearing about it, seeing it, using it, and paying for it. That's why I want to share my feelings with more people, even if not many will see this article. But as the father of a 12-year-old, I feel compelled to share this with everyone.
This isn't speculation — it's based on my personal experience using nearly 1,000 AI products, witnessing firsthand the exponential pace of AI development, especially based on recent full-fledged agent progress and what we've seen internally. AGI is coming. As an industry practitioner, I feel excited and thrilled. But as an ordinary person and father, I feel fear. This coexistence of excitement and fear is hard to describe. Let me offer a simple analogy: Imagine if everyone had a conversational supercomputer — one that knows more than you, computes faster, knows everything, and can do anything. With such an experience at our side, what would our work and lives look like? A recent college graduate, without much social experience, having only learned textbook knowledge in school, may find that their first day after graduation is also their first day of unemployment. What will our entire education system look like in the future? How will we raise our children? These are questions worth thinking about. Additionally, I want to emphasize that the current state of this computer doesn't matter (it certainly still makes mistakes and hallucinates sometimes). What matters is its speed of evolution — this isn't linear progress, but exponential progress. That's what's truly frightening. As a person and a father, I believe we should now realize that we need to coexist with AI in the future, and we should start learning how to coexist with AI — how to coexist, and even how to learn from AI, staying humble, unashamed to ask questions, letting them teach us more knowledge and capabilities.
1. Pay to use the AI platforms you trust and like most, using their most powerful features intensively It doesn't have to be Genspark (but preferably choose those evolving fastest). Trust me — hearing about it, seeing it, using it, and paying for it — each step gives you a completely different feeling. Experience AI's evolution speed firsthand, feel the urgency.
2. Collaborate with AI to do things you never imagined For example, even if you're not a programmer, have AI write any website or mobile app you can imagine. If you like gaming, have AI instantly create game apps based on any idea you have. I have my 12-year-old use AI to write speeches, develop business plans, do anything you never imagined. You'll feel AI's power.
3. Don't test AI (stop trying to prove AI isn't good enough) Many of us in the industry are good at asking AI questions and trying to stump it, to prove AI isn't powerful enough. Let's try a different approach: patiently co-create with it, give it detailed step-by-step prompts to complete tasks together. Have AI explain instructions it doesn't understand, help it resolve confusion together, then let it approach the result you want. You'll have a completely different experience. Those who only test love will never receive love; only those who know how to nurture love will be filled with love. Similarly, only those who truly coexist with AI will experience its power and gain the greatest rewards.
4. If you have children, start changing some of what they learn today Make them AI-native. Let them boldly use AI to complete any work they want to do, not just chat with AI or finish homework. Treat our children like fresh college graduates or junior white-collar workers, let them do things we never imagined before. Let them become the most AI-familiar people from the moment they graduate.
There may be many more things worth doing, but I wanted to write this today to sincerely tell anyone reading: we must become anxious, but at the same time, we must calmly plan for what's next. The future belongs to those who:
- Stay humble
- Maintain a learning mindset
- Quickly adapt to new technology
- Start preparing today, not tomorrow
I sincerely hope this message reaches more people. My goal isn't to promote any product, just to share my experience and convey the urgency of what I've seen and heard.
I may be wrong, and I hope in some ways I am wrong.
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