The GeekPark Innovation Festival 2026 concluded in Beijing. Luo Yonghao, Zhang Nan, He Xiaopeng, Liu Jingkang and others discussed "Taking Control of the Process in the AI Era" together.

From December 6th to 7th, the "GeekPark Innovation Festival 2026" (GeekPark Innovation Festival, hereinafter referred to as "IF"), hosted by GeekPark and co - hosted by 798 Culture and Technology, was successfully held at the 798 Art Zone in Beijing.

In the torrent of AI, the truly scarce resources are people, judgment, and action. Therefore, the theme of this year's conference is "On The Loop! Take Control of the Process". IF 2026 not only focuses on "what AI will bring", but also on how to make important choices and actively shape the future.

IF has been held for 16 consecutive years. This stage has not only witnessed the appearances of global legendary geeks such as Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, Steve Wozniak, the co - founder of Apple, and Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, but also recorded the humble beginnings and glorious moments of outstanding Chinese innovators such as Lei Jun, Zhang Yiming, Wang Xing, Huang Zheng, and Wang Xingxing of Unitree.

Today, GeekPark has become an entrepreneurial ecosystem platform composed of a content community and early - stage investment. GeekPark's "objective function" is very clear: to stimulate the "variables" in innovation and promote "non - consensus" to become new "consensus". As Zhang Peng, the founder and president of GeekPark, said, any successful innovation is a continuous closed - loop of "insight - cognition - action". In essence, it is a continuous "reinforcement learning", and the key is to set your unique objective function.

The conference brought together more than forty global innovators. Through various forms such as keynote speeches on the main stage, 4 "intimate in - depth discussions", and "AI product flash shows", they explored the relationship between technological trends, product innovation, and the future of humanity. The "2025 Geek's Favorite Products" and the "InnoForce 50" annual list were also released on - site.

Questioning Non - Consensus × Defining "Us" in the AI Era in the Next 1500 Days

The main stage of IF 2026 revolved around core topics such as "questioning non - consensus" and "the next 1500 days", sparking a collision between technological trends and humanistic values.

Zhang Nan, the person in charge of ByteDance's Dream project, discussed with Zhang Peng, the founder and president of GeekPark, how to explore human imagination in the AI era. As a mature team embarks on the AI wave in the spirit of "second - time entrepreneurship", she said that AI should not simply be a tool but an amplifier of human capabilities, capable of leading creators to places they've never been before and helping them create things they've never imagined.

He Xiaopeng, the chairman of XPeng Motors, titled his speech "Physical AI: Changing the Future That Is Transforming Human Life", revealing the path to break through the bottleneck as AI extends from the digital space to the physical world. He believes that in the future, in addition to language models, a model that directly perceives, plans, and reasons from the physical world and a model for motion execution and control will surely be combined in the field of physical AI.

Liu Jingkang, the founder of Insta360, talked about the debate between "optics" and "computation" in video creation in the AI era and his thoughts on new products and new competition. He emphasized that more than 70% of Insta360's revenue comes from the niche categories we pioneered independently. Opening up new markets, solving unsolved problems, and creating unique new value, rather than aiming to defeat competitors, is Insta360's core value and our meaning of existence in history.

Ren Yongliang, the founder of the "Cece" App, shared his practice on the evolution of the human - machine relationship. He believes that love is unconditional positive attention and the ultimate force for us to build inner order. In the future, they hope to create a robot with emotional capabilities, making the robot an "angel of love" to convey warmth and achieving a leap from a smart tool to emotional symbiosis.

On the second day of IF 2026, Luo Yonghao shared the story and vision behind his podcast on the GeekPark stage. He said, "I always maintain a kind and neutral attitude towards the interviewees in my podcast, without any malice. We adhere to this principle. I firmly believe that in just half a year to a year, when elite individuals in any industry in China or their affiliated institutions have the need to express themselves to the public, we will be their first choice."

Wang Xiaochuan, the founder and CEO of Baichuan Intelligence, outlined a blueprint for an "AI doctor": The AI doctor will provide full - course health companionship for users, monitoring physical conditions and various health data in real - time, including smoking and drinking habits, adverse drug reactions, disease progression, and treatment effects. These massive amounts of health data will ultimately drive the formation of a new development paradigm in clinical medicine.

Zhang Hongjiang, an investment partner at Source Code Capital, said that the robot system has not yet reached the "GPT moment". The robotics field is still in the "technological path selection stage" and has not yet reached the clear path of the large - model 1.0 stage where "adding computing power and data can solve the problem". There is still a long development cycle ahead.

In addition, Gan Chuang, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, bravely shared a bold judgment: VLA aims to solve the cross - modal problem, that is, how to transfer the intelligence in the vision - language field to the physical world. The world model route based on video models solves the cross - entity problem, that is, how to transfer human behavior patterns to robots, which may be less difficult.

Jiang Yuchen, the R & D director of OPPO ColorOS intelligent products, dissected the next decade of the mobile phone industry from dimensions such as the "breakthrough point" of AI phones and the "core driving capabilities of AI OS". She revealed that GUI Agent is a technical means to handle long - tail scenarios, and OPPO prefers to achieve ecological interconnection through Agent to Agent.

In addition to the above - mentioned technology leaders in the AI field, Tian Yuandong, former AI research director at Meta, Song Yachen, founder and CEO of VAST, Guo Zhenyu, founder and CEO of Sandwich Lab, Wu Chenglin, founder and CEO of DeepWisdom, Turing's Cat, founder of Creaibo and one of the top 100 UP owners, Tian Yuandong, former AI research director at Meta, Peng Lei, founder and CEO of Gestala, Lu Yun, COO of Evernote, Ye Yuming, co - founder and COO of Energy Singularity, Xu Chi, founder and CEO of XREAL, Yuan Lin, founder & CEO of Teeni.AI Hearing Bear, Xiao Qiao, co - founder of Boundless Ark, Li Chuangqi, hardware product expert, Henri, China's chief strategic representative at Kickstarter, Sun Kuan, founder & CEO of Hypershell and other outstanding domestic entrepreneurs shared their views and practices on issues such as the exploration of new applications in the AI era.

Deeply Analyzing the "Evolution Theory" in the AI Era, Take Control of the Process

To meet the need for in - depth communication, IF 2026 specially set up 4 "intimate in - depth discussions", focusing on four dimensions: individuals, relationships, hardware, and space:

In the Super Individual session, 10 entrepreneurs of "one - person companies" shared their practical experiences of "reconstructing personal value with AI", focusing on the empowerment and challenges of AI to individual capabilities and deeply exploring the individual evolution theory in the AI era;

In the session of Remodeling Relationships, regarding the new relationship between humans and AI, entrepreneurs such as Ren Yongliang, founder of Xinyan Group, Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Baichuan Intelligence, and Zhai Xingji, founder of Yuhe Technology, had in - depth discussions on topics such as "the boundaries and essence of AI companionship", "building trust in AI doctors", and "AI to B";

In the session of Hard - Controlled AI, regarding the opportunities and "pitfalls" of AI hardware, entrepreneurs such as Li Chuangqi, former head of Xiaomi's smart glasses, Uncle Kai, founder of Uncle Kai's Story - telling, and Gu Jiawei, founder of Lingyu Cosmos, explored how to integrate ideals and reality in AI hardware;

In the Space Intelligence session, Wang Qian, founder of Self - Variable Robot, Zhao Zhelun, co - founder of Vbot Vita Power, and Su Yang, co - founder of Lingxin Qiaoshou discussed the implementation scenarios and industry challenges of embodied intelligence around the integration of AI and physical space.

Meanwhile, well - known podcast brands such as Pan Luan, the host of "Random Book - Flipping", Li Xiang, the author of the "In - Depth Interviews" series and the host of the podcast "High Energy", Yu Bai, the content editor - in - chief of Youzhi Youxing, Cheng Manqi, the host of "Late - Night Chat", Koji, the founder of Crossroads, Ren Xin, the host of "AI Alchemy", Thomas Bai and Nixon, hosts of Brainwave Discharge, Shi Yaqiong, the host of "The Wind Is Coming", Bi He, the host of Robo Pulse, etc., as co - creation partners of the "intimate in - depth discussions", presented the "front - line scene" of the collision between AI and reality together with the entrepreneurs.

It is worth mentioning that the "AI Product Flash Show" session added to the main stage this year invited several "pioneers" to bring their innovative products that were just released or significantly updated in the past month to make their debuts for the first time. They are: the well - known note - taking tool flomo; the GEO - based AI Agent application PallasAI, an Agentic product dedicated to helping enterprises solve AI - oriented marketing problems; the Doka camera, which topped the photography category list in Taiwan; LavieAI, which uses AI models to replace models for shooting and can obtain beautiful finished products faster and more cost - effectively; OdyssLife, the first intelligent necklace focusing on a healthy lifestyle; MuleRun, an AI expert team for super individuals, and remio, a personal office assistant developed by a former vice - president of NetEase.

Since its establishment in 2010, the GeekPark Innovation Festival has become one of the iconic annual summits in the Chinese technology and innovation fields, witnessing and recording the key nodes of multiple eras in China, such as the mobile Internet, smart hardware, and AI.

As the home base of Chinese innovators, GeekPark once again demonstrated its core ability to "discover innovators, connect innovators, and enable innovators" through the IF 2026 conference.

From technological frontiers to humanistic thinking, from product implementation to ecosystem co - construction, the conference is not only a place for the collision of ideas but also a practical field for "taking control of the process".

Just as this year's theme "On The Loop! Take Control of the Process" conveys, the future is not defined by technology but is jointly written by every innovator who makes active choices. GeekPark will continue to "stimulate variables" and promote more "non - consensus" to become a new force for changing the world.