Connor Pu • 2025.12

MY AI
DECLARATION

Just like the moment on the first day of school when I gathered the courage to be the first to step onto the podium and speak with the Dean of Business School: "I don’t just want to use AI to improve myself, I want to be the one creating those AI applications, combining my AI and business thinking to create value." —I know I am challenging myself, getting closer to my goals step by step.

As the founder of X-tra.AI, I used AI for short-films, handling AI script-writing, video, and audio generation, creating videos with over 200,000 views and won awards. Using AI tools like Bolt and Cursor, I also went from knowing nothing about development to building an app, a website, and a game with AI.

Moreover, as a leader of Qingzhu Welfare Charity, I used AI drawing tools to help autistic children fulfill their dreams, integrated this with business insight to generate profit through charity sales and donate the proceeds.

I also attended the AI Agent discussion panel of Harvard Business School, flew to San Francisco for the Valley 101 Tech Summit and SF Tech Week meeting, where I networked and learned from industry leaders. Through these experiences, I developed a unique way of thinking: I dare to challenge conventional ideas, dare to admit mistakes then correct them. In my spare time. Because I study market and economic news and trends, constantly using new ideas to refute my old thoughts.

For example, recently I reflected: After researching the AI industry chain and testing new AI products, I questioned whether the Transformer structure could support the massive capital expenditure in the AI market. During market analysis, I realized I was wrong: since September, the computing power and energy sectors have faced short-term supply shortages, with significant investments shifting to AI infrastructure, leading to a new market boom.

But then I wondered if AI infrastructure companies lack long-term moats? So I investigated: by October, OpenAI and Nvidia began investing in competing AI companies from upstream to downstream, greatly benefiting various AI companies... These minds made me hunger to find answers, to challenge. Through the above reflections, I had many questions: "Is there an AI bubble? Why? When? What? How?" It wasn’t until I asked AI investors and practitioners face-to-face at the Tech Summit.


As an international student, I want to be a global citizen—because I am certain that if I realize my ideal of combining business with AI technology, the benefits will extend and grow like the branches of a great tree to the whole world: whether it is AI improving self-driving cars; AI promoting medical systems across Developing Countries; AI driving pharmaceutical efficiency to benefit elderly patients; guiding young people in education; or even applying AI in film production to enhance people’s happiness.

As an international student, I am not daunted by arriving in a new country for the first time. I am eager to explore, ready to challenge myself, willing to fly across the US in 24 hours for a tech summit to find the answers I seek, and bold enough to ask every expert on the podium to find answer of the question. networking with experts and founders from AI tech and Business industries.

The global potential is limitless, and the challenges and growth for me are also limitless.

"I am not here to watch the wave. I am here to surf it."

Connor Pu