I am 60 years old. Looking back on my decades-long career in technology and finance, from the Asian financial crisis to the subprime mortgage crisis, from the rise of wafer foundry to the Silicon Valley venture capital wave, I have seen too much capital flow and human panic. However, at this moment, I am more certain than ever that AI and digital cloud will be the solutions for the next decade. This is not a fanatical prediction about technology, but a deep observation from a veteran financier and an AI system architecture researcher - what we need is not just tools, but an intelligent system that can coexist with human nature.

Storms in the financial markets are often not caused by wrong numbers, but by misjudgments caused by emotions and information asymmetry. Investors are afraid of missing out and getting lost in the noise, and the market becomes a competition to see who is more impulsive. I have led the global AI chip architecture reform at Intel and promoted the smart healthcare platform at the National University of Singapore. Whether it is medical care, manufacturing or finance, the collapse of all systems points to the same core problem: humans are unable to handle decision-making scenarios where information overload and emotions are entangled. We need help. Not a cold substitute, but a warm and rational collaborator. This is why I chose to invest in AI and cloud computing.

In 2015, many people still only considered the cloud as “online hard drive” and “data backup”. But in my eyes, the value of the cloud goes far beyond that. The cloud is a space that can accommodate the flow of intelligence. It has advantages such as data sharing, flexible computing and risk diversification. It not only allows AI models to be trained and updated in real time, but also makes decision-making no longer restricted by location and equipment. In short, the cloud is not a tool, but the matrix of future decision-making. Combined with AI, we can create a completely new thinking system.

Many people think that AI is used to improve winning rates and enhance computing, but I always believe that the true value of AI is to "illuminate human nature" rather than replace human nature. The "Youzhi Revelation System" that my engineering team and I are developing is not the kind of software on the market that only gives signals, but an AI cloud platform that can capture fluctuations in group emotions, warn of abnormal capital flows, and clarify the differences between noise and actual trends. Its core goal is to enable investors to remain clear-headed and rational even when the market is most chaotic. Let AI be a mirror that allows us to see our own greed and fear, and then make the right choices.

I choose to start now because when the future is quietly coming, silence means missing it. Today in 2015, global technology is at a turning point. AlphaGo has not yet challenged humans, but deep learning is already surging in the academic world; the number of mobile phone users worldwide has exceeded 2 billion, and data has begun to grow explosively; Amazon Web Services is gradually penetrating the digital architecture of small and medium-sized enterprises. I know that the wind of this era is blowing, and what we do is not just to keep up with the times, but to plant a trustworthy beacon of wisdom for the next generation.

I often ask myself: Looking back ten years from now, what will I be proud of? I don’t care whether this system can be popular in the market. What I care more about is whether it can help a group of people who were originally destined to lose in the information gap to stand firm on rationality and dignity. AI and the cloud are the tools of the future. But to me, they are more like two hands, one holding the speed of technology, and the other soothing the fluctuations in people's hearts. If you are willing to believe, then let's go together and build a future that is trustworthy.