Alexandr Wang 回忆 2017 年与 Scott Wu 的午餐：竞赛圈群体如今遍布 AI 领域
来自 Alexandr Wang 对这群竞赛伙伴近十年经历的回忆。 https://t.co/0pyqflukdz
Scale AI 的 Alexandr Wang 发了条回忆帖：2017 年他和 Scott Wu 吃饭时聊竞赛圈能不能复制 PayPal 黑帮，十年后这帮 IMO/IOI 队友创办了 Cognition、Pika 等公司。想了解这批 AI 创始人共同的数学竞赛成长路径，这条帖子很有意思。
Scale AI 创始人 Alexandr Wang 发帖回忆 2017 年 1 月与 Scott Wu 在旧金山的一次午餐，当时两人 19 岁，讨论 IMO/IOI 竞赛圈子能否成为下一个 PayPal 黑帮。近十年后，这个圈子里的许多人已成为 AI 与科技领域的重要人物。
名单包括 Scott Wu（Cognition CEO）、Demi Guo 与 Meng Zhang（Pika 创始人）、Alex Wei、Steven Zhang 等人，其中多数通过 MATHCOUNTS、AoPS 论坛、数学与算法训练营一路结识，从中学起就在 gchat 上讨论数学题，之后一起实习。
这条帖子呈现了 AI 创业生态的一条特殊人才路径：从数学竞赛圈到顶尖创业者。对关注 AI 行业人才流动的读者来说，帖子提供了这批创始人的共同背景——竞赛经历、线上数学社区、同龄网络——也解释了为什么 Cognition、Pika 等公司能快速起步。
来自 Alexandr Wang 对这群竞赛伙伴近十年经历的回忆。 https://t.co/0pyqflukdz
来自 Alexandr Wang 对这群竞赛伙伴近十年经历的回忆。 x.com/alexandr_wang/… Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang i forgot about this until @ScottWu46 reminded me, but back in january 2017 when we were 19, scott and i had lunch in SF at lunch, we talked about how our IMO/IOI/math competition gang could be the next paypal mafia. i knew the competition kids were geniuses by any standard, and felt confident in time we could take the tech world by storm fast forward nearly 10 years later, and many of our friends from that time are some of the most exciting people in AI and technology ( @ScottWu46 , @akshat_b , @chameleon_jeff , Jerry Ma, @randomjohnnyh , @0xShitTrader , @stevenkplus1 , @thejessezhang , @vickie_ye_ , @alexwei_ , @demi_guo_ , @d_m_ziegler , @hughbzhang , @_mohansolo , @MarkSellke , and many others i'm sure i'm forgetting) i'm now at that age where i reminisce about everyone i grew up with, and i've known most of these people since middle school (via MATHCOUNTS!). even though we were scattered around the country, we would gchat about math problems and hang out on AoPS, then we did math/algo camps together, and then we did internships together. very crazy to think about the degree of sheer brilliance of this group when we were just teenagers, and so special to see so many go on to leave their mark on the world. note to parents: if your kid is on gchat all day solving math problems with some anonymous group of cross-country asian kids, (s)he may just turn out alright. 🔗 View Quoted Tweet
This report is categorized under AITOP's "Industry" desk, focusing on US frontier AI labs and Silicon Valley technology leaders. Within our cross-regional analytical framework, it directly maps to AI developer toolchains, coding agents, and engineering workflows. Key entities and technical topics under continuous tracking include Alexandr Wang, Scott Wu, Cognition, Pika.
Source attribution: curated from AI Will (@FinanceYF5).
