I Resurrected AI Apps at a Bathhouse
It's getting hot.
@吴睿睿
AI applications have been ice-cold for six months.
The soaking pool at Shui Guo: 43 degrees.
This Monday, I put out an open-book exam on AI applications. By noon today, it had been opened 5,000 times. 1,082 people actually took it.
Investors and financial advisors have been saying for the past month that AI application funding is warming up again. Turns out, it's true.
Every question on that exam, every answer choice — parts of each were real.
I never said which parts. You all figured it out anyway.
495 people believe that among Manus, Liblib, and Genspark, more than one is training its own models.
$200K in paid acquisition, a $50 million API contract, $1 million in media spend — ninety percent of you said these are real expenses.
Which VCs are quietly circling back to AI applications? You named more than I knew.
The primary market runs on mood. Hot, then cold. But warming up is simple: more people show up, and it gets hot.
September 3, 3 PM. Shui Guo · Tangquan (Beijing Sihui location). "elsewhere" is hosting a closed-book exam on AI applications.
You want to invest in AI applications. You're out raising for your own application project. Or you just want to watch the AI application circus. Come through.
Take AI applications, left for dead, and warm them back up in the soaking pool.
Honestly this started because we wanted another company hot spring retreat. We like it when somewhere is full because of us, so you're invited.
We're making a new exam. Closed-book. Phones stay out, but there'll be a proctor. No talking. No cheating. Answer based on whatever information diet you've actually been keeping.
No registration. No vetting, no QR codes.
Walk up to the front desk and say you're here for the "elsewhere" event. They'll give you a ribbon wristband.
How many ribbons will they hand out that day? Do they know who these people are? Do they know what we're testing?
They don't.
They just know: ribbon gets you an exam. Only 100 exams. First come, first served.
Someone asked me, without registration, how do you guarantee half investors, half founders?
I said, trust the "elsewhere" readership.
Someone asked me, what if I come late and there are no exams left?
I said, then you soak.
Shui Guo is open to anyone. Ticket's 300 RMB. You buy it yourself. We don't get a cut.
I asked Claude: what do you call an event with no registration, no comped tickets?
Claude said, it's a company retreat with "elsewhere."
Not wrong.
Three o'clock. One hundred people sit down.
Half an hour. Exams come back.
Then, one hundred people resurrect AI applications.
The evening of September 3 at Shui Guo,
gets hot again.
This article is fictional. The event is real.
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Exam records and version:
https://elsewhere.news/zh/elsewhere/midterm-exam
Cover image: Thomas Rowlandson, Comforts of Bath, Plate 7, 1798, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
