David Wang

Serial Entrepreneur & Investor | Forbes30u30 | Founder @opendesciorg Driving the Future of Science with Decentralization & AI #OpenDeSci #DeSci #Blockchain

[David Wang @wang_8]

Paris Blockchain Week 2025 was amazing! 🎉 @opendesciorg won the Visionary Dreamer Award! Special thx to the team🏆

Always great to meet so many awesome people to shape the future 🤖 @EvanLuthra @KOLCapital @cillionaire_com @Peter_thoc @MisterSpread @petrixbarbosa @matchain_io @ErhanKOfficial @CryptoMichNL @revolut20 @profcryptotalks @mominsaqib @moneygurusumit @wiseadvicesumit @navidshokriyan see you guys all soon 🚀✨

@signalweek @amarmic #ParisBlockchainWeek #Award #Blockchain #Innovation #DeSci #Innovation #education #opendesci

[David Wang @wang_8]

Agents coordinating with teammates' agents is where org charts start to change. Most European companies haven't given a single agent a login yet.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Your agents can now coordinate with your teammates’ agents.

Projects has been rebuilt for multiplayer: every teammate and their agents can now work together in one unified workspace.

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@wulfie_bain_ @OpenAI Great to see Berlin on the list. Happy to introduce a few founders here who are building seriously on the API.

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@guohao_li @env_lab_ai @Eigent_AI Agree it's research, not plumbing. An environment is only as good as its grader; a weak check just teaches the agent to game it.

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@mamoonha @GaganSKhurana @jaketurner @AnceP @kleinerperkins @creandum @vicusventures Smart market. From DACH broker M&A work I know how much placement still runs on email and PDFs. Agents that clean up submissions will win fast.

[David Wang @wang_8]

@hnshah And most of what happens after is fixable. The one outcome you can't fix is never having tried.

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Mercedes-Benz and Apptronik in the proof of concept says where this lands first: factory floors. The German Mittelstand should be piloting now, not waiting for version 4.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Gemini Robotics 2.5 is here. 🤖

Our latest physical AI is able to learn hundreds of everyday skills - from folding laundry and serving pastries to autonomously sorting car parts on the factory floor.

Here’s a snapshot of its capabilities 🧵

[David Wang @wang_8]

@business If it happens, it's the first time outsiders can read a frontier lab's full numbers. That alone will reprice the whole sector, in one direction or the other.

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@MagnusGrimeland "Raise as much as you can while it's cheap." In Europe I've seen more good companies stall on a valuation they couldn't grow into than run out of money.

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@jasonlk Even more true in Germany. A Mittelstand owner buys after the second visit, not the tenth email.

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@davidsenra Agents widen that surface again. Every agent with a login is a new identity to secure, and most companies can't even list theirs yet.

[David Wang @wang_8]

Agree. And when discovery gets cheap, the scarce thing becomes checking it. That was the core of our piece with St. Gallen: when output is cheap, verification becomes scarce.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

frontier models, with lots of test time compute, are becoming the engine of scientific discovery

[David Wang @wang_8]

@hnshah Someone who maps one process end to end, sets a measurable target and stays until it runs without them. Most offers stop at the demo.

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@piotrsankowski Agree. Running an AI institute myself, the hard part isn't ideas. It's keeping people when London and the Bay Area pay several times more.

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@McKinsey_MGI Pace is the whole story. In the Mittelstand I see pilots everywhere and very little in production yet. That gap is where the $1.9T gets lost.

[David Wang @wang_8]

@TomasMann1878 For Berlin: Factory Berlin for the startup crowd and Tempelhof field on a sunny day. In Shenzhen, Huaqiangbei is a must. Ping me when you're here.

[David Wang @wang_8]

🇨🇳 China surprised me again. And I think more people should see it for themselves.

Here are 10 things that stood out to me 👇

1. The rhythm of daily life. 🍜
Crazy Chinese work ethics, they work super hard and smart, AI and consumer robotics are everywhere…

2. The rise of Chinese brands. 👟
Nike and Louis Vuitton are no longer the only aspirational names. Domestic brands like Anta and Li-Ning are increasingly visible.

3. Chinese EVs are seriously impressive. 🚗
The technology, features and price-to-value ratio made me rethink, currently driving a BMW. Thinking my next car will be Xiaomi or Zeekr.

4. Service is taken seriously. 🤝
The hospitality and attention to detail I experienced were exceptional.

5. The railway network & infrastructure 🚄
Fast, comfortable and well-organised. Travelling between cities was an experience in itself.

6. Infrastructure at scale. 🏗️
On a roughly two-hour drive to Leshan, near Chengdu, I was surprised by the highway quality and no construction.

7. Cleanliness, organisation 🐼
Visiting Chengdu’s giant panda research base, I was struck by how clean and well-maintained & organised the park was.

8. Data-driven toilet operations. 📊
I was surprised to see AI-enabled monitoring and KPI dashboards used in public toilet management.

9. A different digital ecosystem. 📱
WeChat Pay and Alipay make everyday payments incredibly seamless. Even saving a few seconds at checkout matters when multiplied across millions of transactions.

10. A different media perspective. 📺
I also watched CCTV news in the evenings. The news are way more educational & fact driven from what I’m used to on German television. It reminded me how much our perspective depends on the sources we consume.

My biggest takeaway?

For entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders, curiosity is a competitive advantage.

🌏 Go where the future is being built. Talk to people. Try the products. Observe how things work. Form your own point of view.

[David Wang @wang_8]

@IvanLandabaso 31 new European unicorns this year is a strong signal. How many of them came out of Germany?

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@lukas_m_ziegler @EmbodiedAI_ch Starting on factory floors is smart. The Mittelstand has endless dual arm tasks. The real test is cost per hour against a classic cobot.

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@levie Good news for Europe too. If agents don't need low latency, Nordic hydro and French nuclear become prime real estate for AI factories.

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@MagnusGrimeland Where does consulting land? Speaking as a former Deloitte guy, I'd bet close to average. Great training for decks, less for shipping.

[David Wang @wang_8]

@cactuscompute 22 MB with German built in is a big deal for European industry. Factories that can't send images to the cloud can keep vision on the device.