The Ticket to the Era Is Already in Everyone's Hands | Amazon Web Services Summit AI Open Mic Highlights
Builders are the ones who keep rewriting the rules of the world.
Builders are the people who keep rewriting the rules of the world.
When the barrier to creation gets slammed down to floor level, the only thing that matters is whether you do it or not.
At this year's Amazon Web Services China Summit, Crossing was once again invited to host an AI open mic. The theme: "Day 500 of the Agentic Year: When the Ticket to Create Lands in Everyone's Hands."
We invited six Builders who have already gotten their hands dirty to talk about what they've built, and where AI is taking them next.
Koji, Founder of Crossing
Koji opened with a talk titled "Day 500 of the Agentic Year," looking back at what's happened since Crossing's podcast conversation kicked off the "Agentic Year" label 500 days ago:
Day 100: Manus emerged. Day 300: Claude Code entered the scene. Day 400: OpenClaw launched and set off a global wave.
Koji discussed how this generation of AI Native founders has evolved, the conditions that spark super-individuals, and the jaw-dropping projects he's seen at hackathons.
He wrapped up by introducing the Token Grant program, co-launched by ZhenFund and Crossing, which provides founders with RMB 50,000 in token credits per project. The production materials founders need today have changed — it's not always cash. Sometimes it's just tokens.
Five hundred days have passed, but this is likely only the end of the beginning. The ticket is already in everyone's hands.
Laura Jinyang, Co-founder & CMO of Groove AI
Building is cheap. Attention is the moat. When anyone can code, attention becomes the real competitive advantage.
Laura is living proof. Former ByteDance commercial strategy, former Bilibili. She's been hitting hackathons hard this year, vibe-coding her way through products like Cat Mediation Bureau and a video editing tool — experiencing firsthand the explosion on AI's supply side.
iOS app new releases surged 60% after agentic coding arrived. But consumer attention hasn't kept pace at all.
In her view, how products die has changed. It's no longer "couldn't build it" — it's "nobody knew about it." Growth is fundamentally a search problem: lock in the root node (ICP × Use Case), then iterate toward the optimum through data loops.
Groove AI is building exactly this: a Growth Agent. Traditional growth teams move in weekly sprints, running 3–5 experiments at a time. A Growth Agent stays always-on across all channels, running 50 experiments in parallel, auto-detecting outliers.
The full system has three layers: Eyes (data sensing), Brain (strategy engine), and Hands (execution) — forming a complete growth loop.
Growth is about pouring gasoline on a fire — you need to confirm the fire's already burning.
Jiayuan Zhang, Founder of Multica AI
More and more work is shifting from humans to Agents, but that work is scattered everywhere — Slack, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub, Linear... There's no unified system to manage it all.
In Jiayuan's own team, over half of all tasks are already completed by Agents.
Humans have Slack / Notion / Linear / GitHub. Agents have... nothing.
Multica is filling that missing operating layer: a unified Agent workspace to manage runtimes, manage Agents, assemble Agent teams, task boards, skill accumulation, and usage analytics.
Since launch, growth has been explosive — 37,670 stars on GitHub, with a near-vertical growth curve.
Judgment stays human. Execution goes to the system.
Meijie Wang, CEO of MetaNovas AI
Meijie Wang is building Orphic, an AI Agent that helps brands with product innovation.
Here's a brand's dilemma: sitting on 1.4 million+ pieces of evidence (literature, clinical trials, omics data, ingredient libraries, market signals), but it's all in silos. No system turns evidence into action.
Orphic isn't another chatbot. It's an intelligent agent workspace with seven modules: mechanism discovery → ingredient screening → formulation lab → omics analysis → market research → product claim validation → integrated output.
He explained how Orphic differs from general search tools across four dimensions — breadth, depth, judgment, and evolution — and live-demoed a skincare formulation task side-by-side with Claude Deep Research.
Not better search. A vertical intelligence that predicts, has taste, and trains itself.
Julie Wang, CMO of Clink
Julie opened with a question: for 20 years, buyers have always been human. But now, open-source personal Agents are maturing — starting to search, compare prices, and place orders on users' behalf.
Clink is building infrastructure that serves both humans and Agents with the same stack. Build once, sell to humans and agents.
On the Agent side: one-click integration with major agentic commerce protocols, covering the full flow from product discovery to payment. Upload a Skill, get back a payment-enabled Skill.
On the human side: complete payment integration and product management through a coding Agent with a single sentence.
Post-launch, you can also understand your business in natural language — why revenue grew, which subscriptions are churning, which products are trending.
The backend plugs directly into existing payment rails. No migration needed.
Clink has helped hundreds of AI products go global, closed a funding round led by Baidu Ventures and Celtic House, and is Visa Asia-Pacific's first agentic commerce protocol partner.
Defining a commercial world where humans and Agents coexist.
The monetization of AI products stands at a crossing too — human users remain, but Agent buyers have already arrived.
Zanwei Guo, Product Design Lead at Bridge
Zanwei Guo is building Bridge, an "Intent and Done" universal Agent.
From "happy to chat" to "rather not chat." Chat won't disappear; but Agents shouldn't keep people staring at a chat box.
Bridge's design logic: deliver results, not plans (from chat to deployment). Infer intent through memory (train a personalized recommendation system for each user). Agents appear on any channel (Slack, Discord, GitHub, Meet, Zoom, Email, local Mac).
In other words, chat used to be the destination; going forward, it's more like a protocol. AI should show up where humans already work.
Since launch: 1M views, 150K waitlist in two weeks, with attention and retweets from OpenAI and Anthropic. Pre-seed round completed, with investors including Zoom founder Eric Yuan, Kuaishou founder, Hugging Face co-founder, and OpenAI early members.
Wels Jiancong Wang, Co-founder & COO of AhaCreator
Wels focused on overseas influencer marketing.
What's the pain point? 80% of brands want to do it but aren't satisfied with the status quo; 99% of those who haven't cite execution difficulty as the biggest barrier. In the traditional workflow, 70% of execution costs are burned before any partnership is confirmed — searching, analyzing, filtering, outreach, negotiation, contracting. Budget largely gone before collaboration even begins.
AhaCreator is an AI Native overseas influencer marketing two-sided platform. Its AI Agents automate the entire workflow, making it Lark's first overseas influencer marketing AI Agent partner.
From posting requirements → brand analysis → matching & filtering → outreach & negotiation → contract handling → content production → traffic management → data collection → campaign optimization, fully automated end-to-end. Named 2026 Best Influencer Marketing AI Agent by Influencer Marketing Hub.
Traditional SaaS is "humans bring humans along." AhaCreator is AI executes + humans make key decisions.
A stark comparison: with the same $100K budget, you used to concentrate on a few mega-KOLs, high risk, high reward. Now you can distribute across numerous mid-tier influencers — lower risk, better ROI. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
The fundamental shift AI brings to influencer marketing: lowering execution costs unlocks the possibility of batch deployment at scale.
AhaCreator's platform already has 100,000+ active overseas influencers across 140+ countries and regions, making it the world's largest AI Native influencer marketing platform.
Turn opinions into products, curiosity into action, uncertainty into the direction of your next iteration.
Six Builders, six completely different stories, landing in entirely different scenarios.
This open mic at the Amazon Web Services China Summit once again proved: when the barrier to creation gets slammed down to floor level, the first to move are always the ones already moving.
Looking forward to seeing you Builders again at next year's Amazon Web Services China Summit — bring your questions, your demo, and the answers you want to validate with your own hands!
See you at the open mic!
Crossing has hosted 23 AI open mics, with 200+ next-generation AI founders and active builders contributing stellar talks.
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