YAO Xin from PPIO Attends the First AI International Talent Summit: For AI Implementation, Find the Right "Nail" First and Then Choose the Right "Hammer"
On August 26, the first "AI International Talent Summit" jointly hosted by Hong Kong Investment Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong Investment Company") and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as "BAI") was successfully held in Hong Kong. Paul Chan Mo-po, the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Chen Jiaqi, the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Investment Company, and Huang Tiejun, the Chairman of BAI, attended and delivered speeches.
The summit also brought together top experts in the global artificial intelligence field, such as Professor Zhang Dapeng, an academician of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor David Srolovitz, an academician of the US National Academy of Engineering, and Professor Sethu Vijayakumar, an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the UK, as well as young scholars at home and abroad, and AI startups from different industries. They jointly conducted exchanges and interactions around the development of cutting - edge AI technologies, industrial practices, and ecological construction. Yao Xin, the co - founder and CEO of PPIO, was invited to attend the summit and delivered a speech titled "From PPTV to PPIO: Empowering Global AI Entrepreneurs", sharing the qualities required for entrepreneurs in the AI era based on his own entrepreneurial experience.
Entrepreneurial talents in the AI era need to have the "PDA" mindset
At the event site, as a serial entrepreneur with 21 years of experience, Yao Xin shared his entrepreneurial journey: In 2004, at the age of 24, Yao Xin dropped out of graduate school to start a business and developed PPTV, the world's first online TV software, accumulating 450 million users. In 2016, he transformed into an investor and supported the growth of nearly a hundred technology companies. In 2018, he started his second entrepreneurial venture and founded PPIO, a distributed cloud - computing enterprise.
Currently, PPIO has more than 4,000 computing power nodes across six continents globally, with over 320,000 registered developers on the platform and a daily consumption of Tokens exceeding 210 billion.
"My 20 - year entrepreneurial and investment career has allowed me to be deeply involved in the technological iterations from the Internet wave to AI 1.0 and then to AI 2.0," Yao Xin said. "This cross - era practical experience has also made me realize that the requirements for talent qualities in the current AI field are significantly different from those in the past Internet and early AI eras."
Based on in - depth insights into a large number of AI entrepreneurs and developers served by PPIO and combined with his own entrepreneurial experience, Yao Xin believes that entrepreneurial talents in the AI era need to have the "PDA" mindset, namely Problem - Native, Data Flywheel, and Agentic Execution.
"A truly successful AI entrepreneur is someone who has truly identified the pain points in the industry, rather than someone who owns the largest and most comprehensive models," Yao Xin emphasized. AI talents and entrepreneurs need to first follow the "Problem - Native" principle, starting from the pain points in the industry, "first find the nail, then choose the hammer."
He took the overseas client Harvey AI as an example. This legal - vertical AI company jointly founded by Google Brain technology experts and senior lawyers has successfully unleashed the real value of AI in legal text processing by virtue of its in - depth insights into the rigor and professionalism of the industry.
Facing "real problems", AI entrepreneurial talents also need to build their own moats and develop real core competitiveness. In Yao Xin's view, achieving this goal cannot be separated from the support of the "Data Flywheel".
He pointed out that the gap between models in the current AI field is constantly narrowing, and the accumulation of high - quality vertical industry data has instead become the key to victory. "A 0.1% improvement in the model is far less valuable than 100% proprietary data." He vividly compared this data barrier to the "Flywheel Model": through the continuous cycle of data collection, model training, user feedback, and product optimization, the data continuously appreciates in the iteration, thereby strengthening the competitive advantage.
Yao Xin also particularly emphasized the unique advantages of Hong Kong in terms of data resources - high - value financial transaction data, the ability to flow cross - border data in global trade, and an international and compliant data processing environment. These can provide a natural fertile ground for local AI talents to build the "Data Flywheel" and help them quickly build industry barriers.
After the pain points are clearly identified and the data barrier is formed, the success of AI talent entrepreneurship also requires efficient implementation capabilities, which is the core value of "Agentic Execution".
"The hottest topic in 2025 is not large models, but the explosion of Agent technology," Yao Xin believes. AI is evolving from the past auxiliary analysis role to a "digital employee" capable of autonomously executing tasks - no longer just providing suggestions, but also directly participating in task processing, such as automatically completing streamlined work and efficiently handling repetitive tasks.
This transformation from "assistance" to "execution" can help entrepreneurs convert the previous pain - point solutions and data advantages into actual results, significantly improving the implementation efficiency and accelerating AI entrepreneurs from "ideas" to "value".
Building the foundation for agents, PPIO empowers global AI entrepreneurs
At the critical stage when AI agents are moving from "theoretical breakthrough" to "scenario implementation", as a leading independent distributed cloud - computing service provider in China, PPIO is translating the aforementioned concept of "Agentic Execution" into implementable service capabilities through a solid technological product layout, providing underlying support for global AI entrepreneurs.
Yao Xin highlighted PPIO's core product breakthrough in his speech - the first domestic Agentic AI infrastructure platform launched in July this year. The platform offers core products of "Agent sandbox compatible with E2B interfaces + model API + GPU cloud services", fundamentally solving the industry pain point of AI agents being "able to think but difficult to execute".
Among them, the sandbox, as the core component product, has three key features: millisecond - level startup speed to meet the needs of real - time task response, virtual machine isolation to ensure data security during code execution, and on - demand elastic scheduling to significantly reduce computing power costs. The platform can also support the high - concurrency creation of thousands of instances simultaneously, perfectly balancing the efficiency and security of AI code execution.
"We not only enable large language models to think and reason but also equip them with 'hands and feet' so that AI can safely execute code and automatically complete tasks, providing developers with full - process technical support from 'ideas' to 'implementation'," Yao Xin said.
In the process of extending this core technological capability globally and further amplifying the value of technological empowerment, PPIO has also found the key fulcrum for its international layout - relying on the strategic investment support of Hong Kong Investment Company, positioning Hong Kong as the international headquarters for going global, and deeply integrating into the construction of the Hong Kong AI talent ecosystem.
Data shows that from February to July this year, the monthly consumption of Tokens by Hong Kong developers on PPIO's platform increased nearly 10 times, and the group of university developers has grown rapidly, becoming the main force in AI innovation and creative implementation. PPIO is striving to lower the threshold of AI innovation through ultra - cost - effective Token services, full - stack technical support, and a developer - friendly toolchain.
At the end of the speech, Yao Xin especially addressed AI talents and young entrepreneurs: "PPIO will support entrepreneurs with the same entrepreneurial dreams and enthusiasm as '24 - year - old Yao Xin' through the global distributed computing network and the Agentic AI infrastructure platform, helping them achieve success."
He encouraged young developers to seize the opportunities in the era of AI exploration, leverage Hong Kong's international platform and PPIO's technological infrastructure to transform innovative ideas into real value, and jointly promote the in - depth implementation of AI technology in various industries.