AIGC 'Peak Series' | Investor Who Spent 336 Hours in Silicon Valley Talking with 60+ Experts Invites You to Discuss AIGC Startup Opportunities This Saturday

Right after the 2023 Lunar New Year, the Source Code Capital Venture team — Partner Yungang Huang, Executive Director Chen Runze, and Vice President Luo Yi — immediately flew to Silicon Valley for an intensive learning trip. Over 336 hours, they conducted in-depth interviews with more than 60 senior executives from major Bay Area tech companies, technical leads, academic researchers, frontline engineers, and product managers, exploring the "iPhone moment" from multiple dimensions and in deep detail. At the same time, the Source Code Capital Venture investment team launched a new IP "[C] Talk" focused on AI entrepreneurship and innovation, bringing together technical and product pioneers, entrepreneurs, and academic leaders in the AI space for periodic high-quality closed-door exchanges. We're constantly looking for you — those obsessed with AI technology, those endlessly exploring product applications, those about to start a company or already building one... We want to support you, stand by you, move forward together, and create and drive the arrival of a new world. This Saturday, we'd also love to chat with "you" who are riding this wave. Scroll down to register!

Some reflections and moments from Silicon Valley:

• Startups are a new force with powerful vitality. Chinese startups venturing into uncharted technological territory need more support and包容.

• Silicon Valley's innovation culture allows failure. The innovation ecosystem is remarkably diverse — EVs, autonomous driving, AI, robotics, aviation, biotech — people are pushing the frontier in every field. You need to pursue user value, follow your inner mission, and do things that are truly valuable.

• Looking at Ilya's growth trajectory (OpenAI co-founder), being driven by mission and purpose, staying immersed and focused on machine learning — years of quiet accumulation made today's success possible.

• In the large model supply chain, some trends are long-term certainties, like reducing production costs; others are fuzzy and shifting, like the engineering of models, interfaces, and middleware. Entrepreneurs should make choices based on their own strengths and risk appetite.

• Deploying large models in production is a massive systems engineering challenge. We hope more cross-disciplinary talent will join this magnificent exploration.

• In the new AI era, the data flywheel effect is even more pronounced — the strong get stronger. This applies to foundation models, and likely to applications as well.

• Read ten thousand books, but also travel ten thousand miles. Connection to the physical world may be a crucial link on the path to AGI.

From left: Source Code Capital Partner Yungang Huang, Executive Director Chen Runze, Vice President Luo Yi, and BAAI Innovative Application Lab Head Huang Wenhao

Source Code Capital sponsored an LLM Hackathon, exchanging and co-creating with frontline LLM explorers from major tech companies, startups, and top universities in the Bay Area

Microsoft office in Seattle

Sand Hill Road — "Wall Street of the West Coast," holy land for entrepreneurs

Google Bay View campus

Exchanging with engineers from multiple major tech companies and startups on technical progress across various fields

Stanford University

Seattle night view, from Space Needle

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