[Shanghai Offline Salon] AI's First 100 Days of Upheaval: After DeepSeek, Manus, and GPT-4o, Where Does VC Go in 2025?

🚥 Why We Keep Hosting Offline Salons

In the 100 days since the start of the year, the AI landscape has been in constant flux — from DeepSeek's breakthrough, to Manus going viral, to GPT-4o image generation stunning everyone — what we might call a "Hundred Days of Upheaval."

For founders and investors in AI, this opening "Hundred Days of Upheaval" has brought entirely new opportunities and challenges, reshaping the entire market landscape. We are experiencing an unprecedented pace of iteration and innovation.

On the evening of Sunday, April 20, Crossing invites you to AI Hacker House in Shanghai's Caohejing Development Zone for a salon exploring these industry transformations, with a special session featuring Amazon Web Services sharing insights on the startup ecosystem.

We've found that in-person gatherings spark surprising inspiration and opportunities. That's why Crossing remains committed to hosting offline salons. We look forward to seeing you there.

🚥 What We'll Discuss at This Salon

🔵 17:30 - 18:00 Check-in & Networking

🟢 Opening Talk by Koji:

💬 "AI's Hundred Days of Upheaval: After DeepSeek, Manus, and GPT-4o, Where Does VC Go in 2025?"

🟢 Panel Discussion #1:

💬 "The New Landscape, New Sectors, and New Opportunities After AI's Hundred Days of Upheaval"

🎤 Host: Koji

🎤 Guests:

Wang Tianfan, Partner at BAI Capital

Can Zhang, Managing Director at Linear Capital

🟢 Panel Discussion #2:

💬 "How We Found PMF — Three Founders' Stories of Breaking Through"

🎤 Host: Ronghui

🎤 Guests:

Tian Le, Founder/CEO of Aiyu AI

Legal AI Agent generating tens of millions in revenue; serial entrepreneur with 3 past ventures, 2 successful exits; committed to building self-optimizing vertical domain agents.

Tony Gu, Founder/CEO of AI Sales

Product with proven PMF, just closed a USD funding round.

Changyin Zhou, Founder/CEO of VOZO AI

AI video tool reaching $1M ARR within six months of launch, topped Product Hunt for three consecutive days.

🔵 Crossing Open Mic — 6 sessions, 10 minutes each

The "Open Mic" is a signature feature of Crossing's offline events, dedicated to finding and connecting proactive actors in the AI era. Every Crossing event includes this segment, where participants can spend 5-10 minutes sharing their ideas, products, creations, or entrepreneurial experiences with everyone present.

This salon continues the tradition with 6 open mic slots. Two are already confirmed; the remaining four are open for application in the registration form.

🎤 Session 1: Peter, Founder of LightyearReach

"The Limitations of Large Models in Planning and Knowledge Consolidation, Plus a Technical Framework for AI Enterprise Deployment"

🎤 Session 2: Sunhow Sun, Founder of WonderMe

"Continuously Building Your Own Product and Brand Is the Only Way to Catch the Most Solid Surfboard in the AI Wave"

🎤 Sessions 3-6 are reserved for new friends who sign up — please include your proposed open mic topic in the registration form.

This time, we've upgraded the open mic experience by hosting it in AI Hacker House's "Circle Space" — a unique venue whose environment and atmosphere are especially conducive to deep conversation.

🔵 Till Late Night, Free-form Networking

🌐 How to Participate:

The event is free.

To ensure quality of exchange and thematic focus, we prioritize founders and core team members in AI. Due to limited venue capacity, attendance is capped at 80-100 people.

We will also give priority to those who previously registered for Crossing events but couldn't attend due to space constraints.

Please scan the QR code to register:

Registration deadline: Wednesday, 4/16 at 9:00 AM

Confirmation notifications: Thursday, 4/17 at 5:00 PM

We will notify via text message — please ensure your phone number is correct and watch for the notification.

📍 Location: AI Hacker House, Caohejing, Shanghai

📅 Date: Sunday, April 20, 18:00 - late night

🎫 For venue management, please check in with your confirmation text. Walk-ins will not be accepted.

🏠 Venue: AI Hacker House

AI Hacker House is launched by Crossing and Aligns AI in Shanghai's Caohejing Development Zone, with Spark Lab as the resident operations team.

AI Hacker House is a standalone 300-square-meter building by a lake, surrounded by water and woods.

AI Hacker House aims to become China's first international innovation hub community for AI. Based in Shanghai with a satellite presence in Silicon Valley, we are dedicated to rapidly connecting frontline AI information and talent between China and the US.

Looking ahead to 2035 and reflecting on this decade, I believe AI and robotics will permeate every aspect of life. A new generation of entrepreneurs will surely give rise to more innovative companies like DJI and DeepSeek.

When that time comes, we will feel fortunate to have lived through this best of eras.

🚥 Past Crossing Salons:

• 2025: What Are the AI Entrepreneurship Opportunities in the Post-DeepSeek Era?
• 2024: At Stanford Center at Peking University, Seeing the AI World 1,000 Days From Now
• 2024: In Shanghai, Seeing Silicon Valley | Consumer AI App English Salon
• 2024: A "Hundred-Day Banquet" for Podcasts — Salon for Proactive Actors in the AI Era