Elon Musk
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Elon Musk is a serial entrepreneur and CEO best known as the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, with his portfolio extending across payments, energy, aerospace, brain-computer interfaces, and artificial intelligence. He co-founded PayPal (then part of the "PayPal Mafia" that shaped Silicon Valley), founded Zip2 solo in 1995, invested $100 million to launch SpaceX in 2002, started Tesla, founded Neuralink in 2016, co-founded OpenAI before later clashing with Sam Altman over its direction, and established xAI in 2023 . His current operations include leading Tesla as CEO and pushing an aggressive AI infrastructure buildout through xAI's Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, which deployed 100,000 GPUs in six months using unconventional tactics like cross-state regulatory arbitrage . Musk's management style, described by 5Y Capital as applying "first principles" thinking to talent recruitment, emphasizes hiring top-tier specialists across disciplines and moving fast—even by "Musk time" standards that employees find relentlessly accelerated . SpaceX completed a historic IPO in June 2026, reaching a $2.1 trillion market cap on its first trading day .
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An American Engineer's 11 Days in China
China in 2036 will look very different from 2026.
Hands-On Review | Seedance 2.5: What's Actually Changed From 2.0 to 2.5
Where Does Seedance 2.5 Stand at the Crossing?
Inside Anthropic: Building the Most Dangerous Technology, and Trying to Be Good
"I'm afraid of this technology being in the hands of the company, and I'm afraid of it being in the hands of the government."
Shentao Qin: Building a New Organ for Humanity | The North Face Project
The Interaction Infrastructure Reshaping the Physical World
The Rise of SpaceX: Everything, for Mars | Yunqi Technology
The "Test Flight" of Commercial Space Has Just Begun
The Night SpaceX Went Public: 18 Stories Behind the Miracle
A raging fire cooking oil — behind the scenes of a grand feast.
A Mega IPO Debuts Tonight, But China's Commercial Space Sector Needn't Copy SpaceX
Is Commercial Space Really a Good Business?
Drinking Beer with Lex Fridman in Beijing
He's come to China too.
The "Whole-Team Lobsterization" Playbook at an AI Startup: 30 People × 70x Efficiency Leverage | Gaorong Future
"Tokens as Combat Power"
"Undercover" at Moonshot AI: 100 Hours
Taste is all you need
Maybe We Should Stop Investing in GUI-Centric Software Companies
Agents are a user base ten times larger than humans.
Attention Shifts Direction, Transformers Get a Bone-Deep Overhaul
Moonshot AI's New Architecture: AttnRes
Everyone's calling it the Douyin of the AI era. Is it really?
We put Loopit — the app that's been dominating conversations lately — to the test.
2026 Silicon Valley Reading List: 56 Books Recommended by 18 Silicon Valley Founders
Bill Gates recommended 26 books, Elon Musk recommended 23.
A Conversation with Zhang Chu: "AI Is Still Shallow Waters Full of Pretenders, But I Want to Make an Animated Film With It"
Zhang Tzu, the one who sang "Sister"
A long essay Xing Wang recommended back in 2012 — perfect timing to read it now
What actually transcends time?
NuMiao's Li Nan: The World Is Getting More Real, Everyone Wants to See the Real Thing | BuMing Brain Trust
What makes a product stand out?
Zhang Wei of LimX Dynamics: Humanoid Robots Are Essentially an AI Application | Agentic Era
"Serving People, Not Process"
Peter Thiel is China's delusional dream chaser.
Now is the best time for US tech giants to wave the white flag to China 🏳️
Jensen Huang: AI Will Become a Multimodal, Multi-Embodied General-Purpose System | Vital Views
Counselor Vitality
Behind the $5 Billion: A New Round of Reshuffling in AI Infrastructure | Vital Views
Counselor Vitality
A 5,000-Word Postmortem: How an $1.1 Billion Acquisition Reveals OpenAI's Second Act
OpenAI's Three Turning Points
A Conversation with ChatGPT's Product Lead: What They See Amid the GPT-5 Controversy | Yunqi Tech π
Since GPT-5's launch, praise and criticism have flown in equal measure. Faced with unsparing market feedback, ChatGPT product lead Nick Turley recently sat down with Alex Heath, deputy editor at tech publication *The Verge*, for an interview that offered the first systematic reckoning with the backlash.
The AI World Too Anxious? Hear What This 71-Year-Old "Old Boy" Has to Say
Let's become the kind of people who can "whistle while they work"!
"Five Poisons in One," Using AI to Stoke Fights: He Says, Flaming Each Other Is Gen Alpha's New Social Entry Point | A Conversation with Cao Tong, Founder of Splat
Twenty Years of the Internet, and the Demand Still Waiting to Be Unlocked
After Allen Zhu's "Wake-Up Call," We Surveyed the Survival Status of 10 Leading Humanoid Robot Companies
Pessimists are often right, but optimists are the ones who succeed.
AI + Gaming: Unlimited Potential, But Where's the Innovation Entry Point? | 5Y Capital Tavern Vol. 28
A Conversation with Veteran Gamers and Game Developers
Alphaist: A Dollar-Denominated Fund Born in 2025, and Its Ten-Year Bet
Find the founders who create something out of nothing, who insist on pushing through when the odds are against them.
From OpenAI Intern to Perplexity Founder: What I Learned Building a Startup to "Challenge Google" | Bolt Picks
The so-called "building the next generation of information interaction experiences"
Synthesia CEO: From Visa Rejection to $2.1 Billion Valuation | Z Talk
Everything ultimately comes down to two core things: distribution power, and great product.
Post-95s Founders Lead the GenAI Application Revolution: A Look at 2024's New American Unicorns
In the US, more than half of the new AI unicorns are application companies.
DeepSeek Is Far More Than an Open-Source Victory | BlueRun Ventures
Open source doesn't just make technology more transparent — it drives progress across the entire industry.
"LimX Dynamics' Wei Zhang: Humanoid Robots Won't Enter Factories, Embodied AI Won't Hoard Real-Robot Data" | Oasis Vitality
Counselor Vitality
Elon Musk Unveils Grok 3, But Does It Live Up to the "Strongest Model on Earth" Hype? | Yunqi Tech π
The AI Race Heats Up
Code Brain | Li Lu's Peking University Speech: The Puzzles of Our Era, Their Causes, Essence, and Value Investing
Value investing, wherever it's practiced, is always closely tied to the era in which it operates.
Bloomberg Interview with Altman: Looking Back on Two Years of ChatGPT, His Take on AGI | Bolt Picks
A recent interview with Sam Altman.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: From Leading Microsoft's Transformation to His Analysis of the Future of AI Agents | Bolt Picks
From "knowing everything" to "learning everything."
LiDAR or cameras? How we see the autonomous driving route debate
This Industry, Which Elon Musk Has Doubted, Keeps Advancing Amid Skepticism and Support
AI in China ④: "My Interviewer Isn't Human? Isn't Human!" | A Conversation with Lianggongjun: Founder of Hina AI
"Entrepreneurs shouldn't be afraid of being disliked. Wanting to be liked by everyone is a fatal weakness."
Borey Technology Launches 3D Printing Solution for Humanoid Robots | Oasis Capital Vitality
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Elon Musk's Third In-Depth Interview with Lex Fridman: "Chopsticks Catching Rockets" Is the Key Technology for Building a Martian Civilization
Building a fully reusable rocket is the "holy grail" of orbital spaceflight.
The Reality and Fantasy of Hardware in the AI Era: A Conversation with NuMiao's Li Nan on Hardware, Marketing, Silicon Valley, and Life-Changing Experiences
Misjudgment, failure, bad luck, misfortune, the need to adapt, the possibility of being eliminated — these are the normal state of the world.
YC Founder's Latest Viral Silicon Valley Essay: Founder Mode May Be the Better Operating Model for Startups | Z Talk
In reality, there are two fundamentally different ways to run a company: founder mode versus manager mode.
Is Elon Musk Stirring Things Up Again? Grok 2, Poised to Challenge GPT-5, Is Ready to Launch
Iron Man's "Revenge."
"Press Releases Are Dead, Long-Form Podcasts Rule" | Lei Jun and Elon Musk's Shared Choice
Podcasts: The New Favorite of Tech Bigwigs.
Palantir: How the Secretive Data Analytics Giant Won in the GenAI Era
The smartest people, the most cutting-edge technology, the hardest problems.
AI Staying the Scalpel: Would You Let a Robot Operate on You?
The Scalpel Has Been Handed to AI: Are You Ready?
Z Talk: A Conversation with Uzis Founder Sen Wang — Dropping Out, Returning to China at 22, and 10x'ing GMV in Three Years Selling Basketball Socks
We don't do anything outside of basketball, and it's impossible to understand that many people.
"Who's even using OpenAI anymore? Everyone's on Claude Sonnet now!"
What goes around comes around.
Large Language Models Are Still in Elementary School — Don't Rush Them Into the Workforce | A Conversation with ZhenFund's Yusen Dai: What Stage Is AI At Right Now?
This is a crossover episode between the ZhenFund podcast *"Seriously Speaking"[1]* and the Crossing podcast[2].
A Conversation with NeuraXess: Before Digital Immortality, Let's Use Brain-Computer Interfaces to Cure Diseases | Gaorong Ventures
Delivering breakthrough solutions for treating a wide range of brain-related diseases.
After Reading 100,000 Words of Sora Discussions, Here Are 6 Takeaways I Want to Share
"I used to not believe it was real. Now I don't believe it's fake."
Code Brain | Starting With What GPT-5 Is
No one knows what will happen next. It's crucial to stay humble and watch the future unfold.
Code Brain | Ambition or Hell? How Elon Musk Led Tesla Out of Production Hell
Code Brain | The Rise of Solo Founders: How to Start Your Startup Alone
In today's great wave of AI entrepreneurship, is bias against solo founders justified — or merely outdated groupthink?
Happy first birthday to ChatGPT-3.5! What new lessons have AI and we learned over the past year? | Yunqi Tech Talk
AI's Spectacular Year
Charlie Munger's Only Podcast Appearance
Counselor on Vitality / Counselor for Life Force (Note: This appears to be a title or role name without additional context. If this refers to a specific position or program, more context would help determine the precise translation.)
Code Brain | Open AI Shake-up Settles: Who Won, Who Lost?
The OpenAI Palace Drama: A Complete Account
Code Brain | In the Future, Human Labor Won't Be Nearly Enough — The Market for Robots Is Massive
These Companies Are Also Betting on Humanoid Robots
Breakfast with the OpenAI Founder: 5 Principles for Building a Great Tech Company | Yunqi Capital Insights
Those who set rules for AI must first set rules for themselves.
Oasis Capital Dialogue with Professor Yin Peng: Convergence and Flywheel
Constant Change
Code Class | Why Elon Musk and SpaceX Keep Bouncing Back from Failure
The Falcon 1, despite its repeated failures, laid the foundation for SpaceX's achievements today.
Li Guofei's 10,000-Word Interview: Seeking Wisdom Is About Constantly Breaking the Prison of the Mind
Two worlds that seem to have nothing to do with each other may, at their foundations, arrive at the same destination by different paths.
Meta Launches Killer App Threads — Is Twitter Really About to Be Replaced? | BlueRun Ventures Commentary
Mark Zuckerberg Takes On Elon Musk
Oasis Capital Dialogue with Professor Chen Tao: The Foundation of Castles in the Air
A spiral ascent
The Parametric Reflection of the World: Why Next Token Prediction Produces Intelligence | 5Y View
Does GPT Already Possess Human-like Intelligence?
When Professors Leave the Ivory Tower: Gold Mines, Chasms, and the Fame Game
Faced with a chasm, there will always be those who take the leap.
AIGC "Peak Series" | OpenAI CEO's Latest Interview: 30,000-Word Full Transcript on Technology, Competition, Fear, and the Future of Humans and AI
Humanity seems to be facing an exponential growth miracle it never imagined.
ChatGPT is the talk of Silicon Valley, but the buzz is theirs.
"Some people laughed. Some people cried. The vast majority fell silent."
The "First Principles" of an Uncertain World
Elon Musk's Signal
James Anderson's Letter to Investors 2021
Timeframe, Possibility, Extreme Uncertainty
5Y Capital's Qin Liu: White Doves and Menlo Park — Genius Inventors and Tech Entrepreneurs | 5Y View
Tech innovation requires "dual-core" entrepreneurs.
Great CEOs Are Great HR: How Elon Musk Assembled a Team of Geniuses | 5Y View
To build a startup, you have to move heaven and earth to find the most talented people.
5Y View | Zhang Fei of 5Y Capital: Stray Dogs, Missionaries, and Gods
Life's experiences are a personal practice — and every one of us is on that path.









































































