Today I saw a set of financing data that really left me speechless.
While everyone else was joking in the group about the "post-00s restructuring the workplace," these young people have already flipped the table and taken the main seat at the AI poker table.
Here are some outrageous data points:
25-year-old Hong Letong, who established his company just over a year ago, directly raised $200 million in Series A, with a valuation reaching $1.6 billion (11 billion RMB).
Guo Hangjiang, a senior student at Beiyou, spent 10 days "handcrafting" an AI prediction engine, and Chen Tianqiao directly invested 30 million.
Then there's Chen Yuanpei, with a background from Peking University and Stanford, who is working on a robotic dexterous hand and has raised 2 billion in just over a year; Yale PhD Yang Fengyu, who hasn't even launched a product yet, has already secured hundreds of millions in funding for the concept of a nanny robot.
Brothers, what does this indicate?
It indicates that the current market is not investing in any specific practical applications, but is crazily抢注ing the "future." Capital is in a state of extreme anxiety, fearing that they might miss the ticket to the next era, so they are blindly throwing money at these top brains of Generation Z.
This reminds me of the current Crypto market. The older generation is still tangled up in what TPS, what cross-chain bridges, and what Ethereum legitimacy are, while the hot money outside has long gone chasing AI + Web3, pursuing those new narratives that they can't even understand.
My judgment:
In the next year or two, the wealth effect from the AI sector will definitely spill over into Crypto. Those old public chains that rely solely on PPT storytelling will suffer greatly, while projects that can truly integrate AI computing power, data, and even robotic concepts, even if they are just makeshift teams, will have their valuations skyrocket.
Soul-searching question:
If you currently have 100,000 U, would you choose:
A. To bottom-fish those plummeting "old value coins"
B. To go all in on a new AI + Crypto project created by these post-00s geniuses
Let me know your choice in the comments, and also tell me which AI-related asset you are optimistic about?