ISB AI Founders
Day 5 · 16:30 · after the pitches
Future of AI and Wrap Up
人工智能的未来，以及今天的总结
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The results
The judges have decided.
评委已经做出决定。
Stage left for the check and the photo
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Before we look ahead 在展望未来之前
First, congratulations. This week you bet on yourselves.
首先，恭喜你们。这一周，你们把赌注押在了自己身上。
You spent five days of your summer building instead of coasting. That choice compounds.
你们把五天暑假用来创造，而不是虚度。这样的选择，会不断累积。
Why I teach this 我为什么来上这门课
I teach this because I lived it.
我来教这门课，是因为我亲身走过。
I built companies, made most of the mistakes, and wished someone had told me all of this earlier.
我创过业，也犯过大部分的错，只希望当年有人早点告诉我这些。
And one more reason 还有一个原因
Education is what I care about most.
教育，是我最在乎的事。
Even when what I teach looks nothing like school.
哪怕我教的东西，看起来一点也不像学校。
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The future of AI
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
「未来已经到来，只是分布得还不均衡。」
William Gibson
Jobs and work are fundamentally changing.
工作和职业，正在发生根本性的变化。
Already happening · 1 of 2
Right now, this year
就在今年，正在发生
NotebookLM
Media
replacing podcasts
谷歌出品，正在取代播客
Built by Google
Cursor
Software
replacing software engineers
估值500亿美元，正在取代软件工程师
In talks at a $50 billion valuation
Genspark
Consulting
replacing consultants
融资1亿美元，估值5.3亿，正在取代咨询顾问
$100M raised at a $530M valuation
Already happening · 2 of 2
Right now, this year
就在今年，正在发生
Harvey AI
Legal
replacing lawyers
估值50亿美元，正在取代律师
Valued at $5 billion, used by elite law firms
AI SDRs (Artisan, 11x)
Sales
replacing sales teams
赛道融资数亿美元，正在取代销售岗位
Hundreds of millions raised across the category
Manus
Research
replacing market researchers
中国团队打造，估值约5亿美元，正在取代市场研究员
Chinese AI agent, about a $500M valuation
Measured, not predicted 这是实测数据，不是预测
Nearly every kind of work is already being touched.
几乎每一类工作，都已经开始被AI影响。
49%
of occupations already use AI for at least a quarter of their tasks
近半数职业，已有四分之一以上的工作交给AI
37%
of all AI use sits in computer and mathematical work, and it is spreading outward
计算机与数学类占比最高，并正在向其他行业蔓延
Anthropic Economic Index · Anthropic 经济指数
The career ladder is dissolving. The portfolio is replacing the resume.
职业阶梯正在瓦解，作品集正在取代简历。
What you have built is becoming the credential. These students now have a live product before their first internship.
Entry-level work automates first.
入门级的工作，最先被自动化。
The research, drafting, and analysis tasks that used to train juniors are exactly what agents do now. The way in is to direct the agents, not compete with them.
Careers · the proof
A one-person, billion-dollar company.
一个人的十亿美元公司。
“We’re going to see the first one-person billion-dollar company.”
「我们将见证第一家一个人的十亿美元公司。」
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
OpenAI
OpenAIOne founder plus AI agents now does what took a team of ten. Leverage has never been this cheap, or this young.
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Medvi · $401M year one · two employees
Polsia · $250M valuation · zero employees
The gap 落差
And almost no school teaches any of this.
而这些，几乎没有一所学校在教。
Not how to direct AI. Not how to find a real problem, talk to a customer, think critically about an answer, price your own work, or defend an idea in front of a room.
不教如何驾驭AI，也不教如何发现真问题、与用户对话、批判性思考、为自己的作品定价，或当众为一个想法辩护。
Your kids just spent five days on exactly the part that gets left out.
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So what does this mean for you?
那么，这对你意味着什么？
This is scary.
这确实让人不安。
But massively exciting.
但更令人无比兴奋。
The point
For the first time perhaps in history, you have near infinite leverage in your hands.
这或许是历史上第一次，你手中握有近乎无限的杠杆力量。
Proof · Cursor
Cursor: built by four MIT classmates, all 25 today. SpaceX is buying it for $60 billion.
Cursor 由四位MIT同学创办，如今都只有25岁。SpaceX 正以600亿美元收购它。
TechCrunch
Proof · Mercor
$1M to $100M revenue in 9 months. Founded by three 21-year-olds.
九个月内，从一百万美元收入做到一亿美元，创始人是三位21岁的年轻人。
TechCrunch
My parting advice
Stay curious. Always be learning. That is not the same as education.
保持好奇，持续学习，这和接受教育并不是一回事。
Rethink paths and careers.
重新思考人生道路与职业选择。
A $200 billion company hires straight out of high school. The Thiel Fellowship pays $250,000 to build instead of sitting in a classroom.
一家两千亿美元估值的公司，直接从高中招人。泰尔奖学金付给年轻人25万美元，让他们去创造，而不是坐在教室里。
Entrepreneur
thielfellowship.org
The same AI that can do your homework can teach you anything.
能帮你写作业的AI，也能教会你任何事。
Use it as the world's best tutor, not a shortcut. The pocket card's tutor mode is exactly this.
Shortcut
“just give me the answer”
Tutor
“explain it until it clicks”
You live between the two AI superpowers.
你正生活在两个AI超级大国之间。
The US invents at the frontier. China deploys and manufactures it everywhere. Being fluent in both worlds is a career moat almost nobody else has.
US · FRONTIER
CN · DEPLOY
YOU
Do interesting projects. Lean into passions.
去做有趣的项目，拥抱自己的热爱。
Consider entrepreneurship.
认真考虑创业这条路。
Not someday. Now. 不是将来，是现在
Raise the size of your ambition.
把你的野心，放大一号。
At 19, with AI, you can go after a problem a Fortune 500 company is also chasing. You are AI native. They are not. That gap is the biggest advantage you will ever be handed.
19岁的你，靠AI就能与世界500强争同一个机会。你是AI原住民，他们不是。这就是你此生拿到的最大优势。
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
预测未来的最好方式，就是亲手创造它。
Five days 五天
On Wednesday you were typing simple questions into ChatGPT.
周三，你们还只是在向 ChatGPT 提简单的问题。
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Shipped real products
做出真实可用的产品
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Found real customers
找到真实的用户
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Made your own advertisements
拍出自己的广告片
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Priced it and set up a company
为作品定价，并注册公司
In five days. 就在五天之内。
Thank you
Before we close, thank you.
在结束之前，先说一声谢谢。
The parents
For lending us your founders for a week, and for being their first customers.
感谢你们把孩子交给我们一周，
也感谢你们成为了他们的第一批客户。
也感谢你们成为了他们的第一批客户。
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For the room and the trust.
感谢学校提供的场地与信任。
The judges
Jing Jing Yang, Sophy Wang, Richard Zhang, and Woojin Lim.
感谢三位评委的时间与用心点评。
The founders
Every one of them, for actually showing up to build.
感谢每一位学生，真正动手把想法做了出来。
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ISB AI Founders
One more thing
One more thing: everyone in the frame.
最后一件事：让我们一起入镜合影。
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