We canceled every item on the agenda and held back exactly 100 boat tickets for the eve of WAIC.

You've felt it — that gravitational pull of acceleration this past year. World models, space-based compute, Physical AI. Our imagination for AI is already reaching beyond the atmosphere. Every few weeks, something new reminds us: that new world is drawing closer, faster.

And yet, the people actually building it are finding it harder and harder to find each other. You add someone on WeChat, but you can't necessarily speak your truth. You grab coffee, but you're not necessarily the same kind.

The night before last year's WAIC, we threw the first Booming Night along the Huangpu River. Hundreds of founders put on masks, left their titles at the door, and drank the whole night through. Someone formed an impromptu band. Someone cosplayed a sci-fi character. Someone talked until dawn. That night confirmed something — when you're with the right people, kindred spirits become constellations.

This year, we want to raise the concentration even higher.

This year's Booming Night is for founders only.

99% AI founders. 1% BlueRun Ventures.

No speakers. No audience. No insight couriers.

We believe the people creating the future know where they want to go, and how to get there.

They just need to find each other.

July 16, the night before WAIC

To "Beyond the World"

No debating world model architectures,

No guessing the endgame of Scaling Laws,

No tending to a flooded WeChat or any of the noise.

Tonight, leave the gravity of the old world outside.

With 100 AI founders who've built the new world with their own hands,

Recognize each other in zero gravity, talk freely.

We've canceled every agenda item.

① Everyone equal · Honor the character in your heart

Come dressed in their skin, enter their parallel world — Elon Musk, Princess Leia, Spider-Man, Catwoman, Cristiano Ronaldo... If you haven't decided, there'll be plenty of masks on-site. Find your people by gaze and by work.

② Clink glasses with silicon-based life

Embodied robots and the most cutting-edge AI products will be mixed in the crowd. Find them, ask them a good question.

③ Non-AI mini-games, bullshit sessions, emergence walls, drinking bubbles...

Some undefined moments, left for whoever shows up to co-create.

Only 100 boarding passes remain.

Now assembling 100 next-generation AI founders.

Can be a founder, an indie developer, an active builder polishing your work. High-five in the act of creation.

AI founder, welcome aboard

Thanks to our fellow Booming partners:

Before landing in the new world,

First come to beyond the world.

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