AI Founder Zirong Chi on What Makes an Idea Worth Building
As China's midyear hackathon season accelerates, the NxCode founder brings an operator's eye to She Nicest's Motherboard event - and a track record spanning AI education, product development, accelerator backing and ecosystem leadership.
As 2026 moves through its midpoint, China's artificial intelligence event calendar is crowded with hackathons, demo days and founder competitions. Models are improving, prototyping tools are faster, and small teams can now produce in hours what once demanded weeks of engineering. Yet the central question is changing. The real test is no longer whether a team can create a convincing demonstration over a weekend, but whether it has identified a problem worth solving and can turn an early prototype into something people will continue to use.
That tension was visible at Motherboard, a Mother's Day hackathon organized by She Nicest, China's largest annual women's technology hackathon. Held on May 9 and 10 in Beijing and Shanghai, the...
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