Let AI Help You Create Wonders — Linear Capital and Newshixiang Launch the First AI Art Festival

Last week, The Fair (新世相) and Linear Capital jointly launched the first Artificial Intelligence Art Festival (AIAF), and announced its first collective initiative — the "Love, Hate, Passion, and Vengeance" AI Image Creation Project.

As an investment firm focused on frontier technology, AI is one of our key investment areas. We firmly believe that this wave of AI development will bring about a transformation in productivity and new forms of interaction, sparking intense chemical reactions across a remarkably broad range of fields. We want to actively participate in the creativity and new changes that AI brings.

We welcome everyone to join this collective initiative at the AI Art Festival and unleash your creativity. As a co-initiator, we will follow and participate throughout the entire process, and we warmly welcome young people with creativity and ideas to reach out to us! **

What you are about to read is an invitation brimming with excitement. We are launching the first Artificial Intelligence Art Festival (AIAF), and announcing our first collective initiative — the "Love, Hate, Passion, and Vengeance" AI Image Creation Project.

At a moment when order is being reshaped, we are waiting for new legends.

We are practitioners in literature, art, technology, and the creative industries. We are enthusiasts who love and continually seek forms of human spiritual expression.

This is a passionate gathering at the busy intersection of "technology and art." On this short list are scientists, entrepreneurs, and emerging tech companies that command attention in China and worldwide; there are cultural icons and institutions that have left lasting imprints on China's spiritual life and resonated across generations. Most importantly, through our community and media partners, we are privileged to stand alongside tens of thousands of creators who have spontaneously joined the wave of AI creation out of pure passion.

Today, when the popularity of AI needs no elaboration, and even the creative process that most embodies human spiritual uniqueness is being replicated by AI, we want to answer this with you:

What is human uniqueness? What is human value?

We are launching a comprehensive program that includes online open calls, offline exhibitions, forums, and workshops. If you hope to or are already practicing AI creation, we can help you find fellow travelers and show your work to more people. We will also invite you to join our industry forums and offline co-creation sessions, and to bring your work to the offline exhibition at Aranya.

If we asked AI to shoot an advertisement for humanity, expressing the human spirit, what would it look like?

Since AI's emergence, the technical barriers that once blocked many people's creative enthusiasm are no longer thresholds or privileges for the few. Anyone has the opportunity to express their taste, aesthetic sensibility, and uniqueness. Whether you are an artist, lawyer, skilled worker, driver, student... beggar or king. New creators are emerging, and new content idols are being born.

We invite creators and AI enthusiasts, primarily of Chinese descent worldwide — or rather, we invite all who have experience, understanding, and the desire to express the human spirit — to use AI as a tool, join our creation project, and submit planar image works to us.

Together with our human partners, using our influence and persuasive power, we seek the greatest consensus and push for the smallest progress at this moment.

We ask you to join us.

If you have more questions about the participation process, please click here, or reply "AIAF" in the official account chat window.

New languages, new values, new inspiration and creation are happening. The Fair is a content brand with sharp instincts for new methods and tools. We are trying to explore new possibilities for content expression and its value to ordinary people.

What makes the AI era exciting is precisely that it shatters the barriers to creation with tools.

Just as after digital photography became ubiquitous, an ordinary person with an aesthetic eye could use their phone to take moving photographs. Just as after music production software spread, a talented high schooler could write a symphony in their dorm room.

If you too have a longing for creation, a fascination and pursuit of new things;

If you too want to climb the ladder of code and test the upper limits of your own creativity;

If you too want to write of "love, hate, passion, and vengeance";

Please join this collective creation initiative. Together we will demonstrate the power of human beings.

All outstanding works will be presented and published as part of the AI Era Human Creator Alliance portfolio.

We invite outstanding representatives from the AI technology field and the art and culture field to form an advisory board and jury with us, to select the works that best embody human creativity and spirit expressed through AI tools. We also hope that through serious exhibitions and fittingly wondrous offline presentations, the works and the event can achieve completeness.

What we want to illustrate is a question rarely considered in the past:

How do humans express love? How do they understand hate?

How must humans mobilize their experience, memory, and imagination to convey more complex, authentic emotions?

Sitting before AI's dialogue box, each of us can gradually find answers from within our own bodies and minds.

Past discussions framed around this proposition tended toward a pessimistic hypothetical: as technology continuously evolves, humanity's future will become cold and emotionless.

We hope that through this creative opportunity, you will tell of the temperature of the human soul in your interactions with artificial intelligence.

Benefiting from years of science fiction descriptions of the AI era, humanity now possesses an unprecedented sense of alliance. Today we want to go further, seeking the greatest common denominator within it.

"Union" is what we value; the description "alliance of humans" will be a warmly intimate proposition in this era of rapid AI growth. We want to use AI to make a declaration for the human spirit, to shoot a set of "advertisements" centered on complex but diverse fundamental human emotional experiences.

Therefore, we have designated the first AIAF as "Love, Hate, Passion, and Vengeance."

It is an opportunity for humans to love themselves more deeply through dialogue with AI, an opportunity to begin expressing oneself and sharing oneself with the world.

In terms of creative standards, we believe what matters most remains human understanding, human resonance, human unpredictable emotions, and human joys and sorrows. We quote Xi Tao to express our attitude toward human creation in the post-AI era:

"Whether AI will replace human creation — I think that's itself a laughable question. If it really happened, it would prove that humanity has no emotional warmth whatsoever, entirely enslaved by machines, enslaving our own emotions. I completely disagree with any direction of artificial intelligence that wants to replace art, and I think it's a waste of time, with the goal of turning people into machines."

We hope you will primarily use AI to complete your work.

You may choose one or more characters from "love, hate, passion, and vengeance" to create from.

Your work may reflect thoughts on emotion, individuality, and how AI understands and expresses these complex emotions. Imagination, creativity, grasp of reality, and resonance are the dimensions by which outstanding works will be judged.

Furthermore, our advisory board will create with you or select the works that best embody human creativity and spirit expressed through AI tools.

They are —

Literary Advisors: Bei Dao, Chen Qiufan Art Advisor: Philip Tinari Image Advisors: Haixin, Xiao Quan Technical Advisors: Yusen Dai, Hidecloud, Kazik Creative Advisor and Special Curator: Deng Li

All selected outstanding works will be presented and published as part of the AI Era Human Alliance portfolio. We will also select 100 works that meet our standards to complete an offline exhibition with our joint presentation partner, Aranya.

During the open call and exhibition period, we will invite partners, friends, and outstanding creators for offline co-creation and exchange.

One of AIAF's missions is to provide an opportunity that inspires more creative people to join AI creation, collectively exploring exciting new possibilities for content and creativity.

New image creativity has hope of being born here. Richer faces of the human spirit have hope of being born here. More open, warmer visions for humanity's future have hope of being born here.

We have invited advisors and partners from various industries to provide ordinary people with technical and resource support, including documentation on how to create AI images, and auxiliary GPTs specially developed for creators.

However, what we lack most is your action — more people using their talent and understanding to irrigate new creative soil.

Order is being reshaped. We look forward to you becoming the new legend.

First Artificial Intelligence Art Festival (AIAF)

Festival Chair | Zhang Wei Initiator | Yang Yuancheng Executive Director | Guo Rong Content Coordination | Liang Ke Partnership Coordination | Zhong Ping, Liu Haidi Product Design | Liu Ye, Wang Rui Technical Support | Yuan Yu Wan Xiang

About Linear Capital

Linear Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on "frontier technology + industry" — that is, frontier technologies represented by data intelligence, digital new infrastructure, next-generation robotics, and new technological transformations in traditional domains (such as biomedicine, materials, energy, etc.), applied across vertical industries to substantially improve industrial efficiency, empower the resolution of pain points, and complete industrial upgrading, achieving excess returns in commercial value through substantial increases in industrial value. It currently manages ten funds with total assets under management of approximately $2 billion.

Our investment stage focuses primarily on leading angel to Series A rounds, with individual investments ranging from $1 million to $10 million (or RMB equivalent).

To date, we have made early-stage investments in over 120 entrepreneurial teams including Horizon Robotics, Kujiale, Sensors Data, Tezign, Rokid, Guandata, Agile Robots, and others. The combined valuation of Linear Capital's portfolio companies is approximately $20 billion.

In the near term, Linear Capital is working to become the premier "Data Intelligence Technology Fund," and in the long term, to gradually build itself into the most influential "Frontier Technology Application Fund."