➤ "Crossing" 2026 Year-End AI Review Series, Episode Two. We're joined by Gu Yu, co-founder of NeoCognition and the person behind NeoLab in Silicon Valley.
This year, we're skipping the sprawling news roundup (let AI handle that). Instead, we've asked friends of Crossing who are on the front lines of AI — founders, researchers, and investors — to share ten moments that genuinely moved them.
Gu Yu's Ten Aha Moments:
[01:13] RSI: Do big tech companies face the innovator's dilemma — and does that create an opening for NeoLab?
[04:28] Computer Use: Opus 5.5 drops an upgrade and suddenly months of our work goes up in smoke?
[13:10] Why Scaling Law will always be worth your faith?
[16:18] Continual Learning: I publicly said Memory Notes wouldn't work — I got that one wrong...
[17:55] The academic conference system is on the verge of collapse. What comes next?
[21:37] University professors versus nightclub hosts: who holds higher social status in ten years?
[25:34] Building NeoLab: When the fire breaks out, do we build the extinguisher or sell bricks first?
[30:44] Wait, when did professors and PhDs starting companies become the mainstream thing to do?
[32:47] AI film: I got completely absorbed watching on Bilibili and forgot it was AI-generated
[36:25] Don't knock it — Personal Agent actually turned out pretty useful!
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