NeoSoul Co-Founder Kaelan: AI Industry Should Allow Toys to Exist, Innovation Often Starts as Experimental Products

Gate News message, April 24 — At a recent Hong Kong forum on intelligent encrypted finance, NeoSoul co-founder Kaelan shared insights on evaluating AI projects in the early-stage, rapidly evolving AI industry. Beyond assessing current products, teams must demonstrate the ability to keep pace with underlying model capabilities, he stated. Kaelan emphasized that AI entrepreneurship requires both groundedness and vision: groundedness means possessing engineering implementation, product design, and market understanding capabilities to deliver tangible products; vision means building in alignment with large language model evolution trends.

Kaelan argued that while some early-stage AI products may appear toy-like, such forms should be permitted in emerging industries. Many genuinely new paradigms first emerge as experimental products before reaching maturity.