Tsinghua’s Yao Class has trained only 700 people in 20 years
Yet its graduates have secured a huge share of the global AI landscape
So what’s the value of the other billion people?
Let’s do the math first:
What does 700 people mean? They admit only 30 or 40 students a year—getting in is even more competitive than becoming the top scorer on the national exam. Of the tens of millions of students who take China’s college entrance exam each year, those who make it in are pretty much “the geniuses among math geniuses.”
And is the claim that they’ve “secured a huge share of AI” just hype? Actually, no—it’s not made up.
The AI companies you’ve heard of all have Yao Class grads behind them:
Zhipu AI (the company behind GLM and Qingyan) → Founder Tang Jie, Yao Class
Megvii (the company behind facial-recognition payments) → Yin Qi, Yao Class; all three of his co-founders were classmates
Pony.ai (the self-driving taxi company) → Lou Tiancheng, a “legendary” figure in the Yao Class
Enflame, DeepGlint, PingCAP… in company after company building chips and databases, you’ll find “Yao Class” on the founders’ résumés.
Put simply: 40 people sit in one classroom. Twenty years later, they hold the cards that determine “who sets the rules for AI.”
So does that mean the other billion people are useless?
Don’t panic—Da Dan 7878 will break it down for you 🌸:
Those 700 Yao Class grads write the rules and build the engines;
The other billion use the engines, feed them data, and sell what they make.
No matter how powerful AI gets, someone still has to find real-world uses for it, pay for it, and bring it into factories, hospitals, livestreams, and wet markets.
Even the most powerful engine is just a decoration without a driver or passengers.
So here’s the truth:
Not making it into those 700 doesn’t mean you can’t catch this train.
Don’t compete with geniuses to reinvent the wheel. Learn to ride the wheel, borrow the wheel, and fit the wheel to your own business—that’s the biggest opportunity this AI wave offers ordinary people.
Someone on Twitter put together a ranking of the crypto world’s most famously broke figures. The poorest is Bao Ergou, who sold beef after graduating from high school and bought tens of thousands of $BTC when it was worth $70. Rumor has it he held 100,000 BTC at the market’s 2017 peak!
So what does that actually mean?
Bao Ergou used to sell Pingyao beef in Shanxi. He had a high school education and no connections or special background. When he first heard people talking about Bitcoin, he thought, “This thing might actually work,” and put real money into it. When the price was ridiculously low—just a few dozen bucks per coin—he bought and held tens of thousands. Then the bull market came, and rumors say he once held as many as 100,000 BTC. Of course, that’s just what people in the crypto community say; there’s no way to verify the numbers. But you can’t deny it makes a great story.
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The weekly leaderboard comes down to luck. If you missed the boat, don’t chase it.
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