If the tech industry is a vast starry sky, then amidst the rhythmic pulse of time, there always emerge brilliant stars who choose to depart from their original constellations, shining solo and leading the charge for new changes.

Recently, Mira Murati, the former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI and renowned as the 'Mother of ChatGPT,' has launched Thinking Machines Lab alongside a group of OpenAI elite after her departure.

As the 'Mother of ChatGPT,' Murati spearheaded the development of several key products during her tenure at OpenAI, including ChatGPT and DALL-E, significantly advancing natural language processing and image generation technologies.

The core team of Murati's new venture comprises John Schulman, OpenAI co-founder serving as Chief Scientist; Barret Zoph, former Research Vice President as Chief Technology Officer; and Lilian Weng, former Security Research Vice President. They are dedicated to creating intelligent models and products that facilitate 'human-AI collaboration,' aiming to meet users' specific needs through a rational AI infrastructure and fostering an open scientific culture in global AI.

Despite not yet unveiling specific products or models, Thinking Machines Lab has garnered extensive capital market attention due to its robust team background and forward-thinking entrepreneurial vision, with an anticipated funding round of up to $1 billion.

Similarly, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, established his company, Safe Superintelligence, last year, focusing on developing safe superintelligent systems and swiftly securing $1 billion in funding.

Comparable scenarios are continuously playing out in the global tech sector. Jan Koum and Brian Acton, the founders of WhatsApp, spent years at Yahoo. When Koum and Acton left Yahoo in 2009, no one foresaw that their WhatsApp would redefine human communication. What began as an app intended to replace SMS fees eventually merged with Facebook for $19 billion, pioneering innovations like end-to-end encryption and cross-platform communication.

More profoundly, it enabled 2 billion global users, particularly those in developing nations, to experience the power of instant digital connectivity for the first time, profoundly shaking the foundations of the traditional telecom industry and altering the mode of geopolitical information dissemination.

Likewise, Kevin Systrom, Instagram's founder, was once a Google employee, while Mike Krieger hailed from Brazil and studied at Stanford University. After meeting, they decided to develop a location-based photo-sharing app, which became Instagram. Upon its 2010 launch, they might not have realized they were rewriting the underlying logic of visual communication.

This photo app not only made filter algorithms a standard feature of digital social media but also nurtured a trillion-dollar content economy. From rural artisans to international luxury brands, algorithms bridged the gap in visual storytelling capabilities, and the wave of democratized creation birthed the concept of a 'creator economy.' When Facebook acquired the 13-person company for $1 billion, Zuckerberg valued not just the user growth curve but also the strategic heartland in the battle for human attention.

In 2012, Google executives Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat left to found the AI company DeepMind. DeepMind achieved multiple breakthroughs in AI, such as developing AlphaGo, the first AI program to defeat a human Go champion. This feat showcased AI's potential in complex strategic games, sparking global interest and investment in AI.

The fission in the smart hardware sector is equally thrilling. Tony Fadell, a core Apple designer, founded Nest Labs with the iPod and iPhone design philosophy, redefining the age-old need for temperature regulation as 'environmental intelligence.' The sleek smart thermostat was not just an early IoT example but also revealed the business logic of hardware-as-a-service—when devices learn user habits and optimize themselves, product value shifts from a physical entity to data intelligence. Google's $3.2 billion acquisition was a preemptive move to secure future home data access.

In modern tech history, executive entrepreneurship is akin to a gear loosening from a precision machine, yet it reconstructs an entirely new power system in a broader context. Tech historian Margaret O'Mara has noted that Silicon Valley's enduring vitality stems from the 'rainforest' phenomenon. A 'rainforest' conducive to high-tech growth brings together all high-end elements, professionals, resources, and conditions for innovation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation. This fosters a highly concentrated pool of top talent and a robust entrepreneurial atmosphere that encourages risk-taking and tolerates failure.

From the 'Traitorous Eight' who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to the graphical interface ideas emanating from Xerox PARC, to today's collective exodus of OpenAI executives, the continuous flow of talent has built a relay network for technological evolution. WhatsApp restructured the social graph, Instagram reshaped visual expression, Nest defined intelligent spaces, and DeepMind broke through machine cognition—each case demonstrates that when top talent brings mature methodologies into new fields, the resulting chain reaction often surpasses the original organization's innovation boundaries.

On China's technological innovation star map, a similar narrative is unfolding—as DJI talent pours into the robotics race, and executives from Baidu and Alibaba collectively rush towards the large model battlefield, an industrial fission led by top company executives is reshaping China's technological innovation landscape.

The entrepreneurial landscape of the DJI ecosystem is particularly striking. Wei Jidong, a former senior R&D manager at DJI, founded SLRobotics, iterating AGV chassis technology into intelligent lawnmower robots, achieving $44.62 million in sales in a single month on Amazon. Topaz Technology, gathering top engineers from DJI, Alibaba, and ByteDance, opened up the global maker market with desktop 3D printers, attracting over 8.2 million independent site visits in a month. This group of entrepreneurs, armed with DJI's 'hardware gene' and an extreme product mindset, has fortified technological moats in fields like mobile energy storage, robotics, and intelligent manufacturing.

The intellectual spillover from internet giants is equally robust. Wang Xiaochuan from the Baidu ecosystem founded Baichuan Intelligence with Sogou's technological heritage, while Ma Jie infused his Baidu security experience into Zero One Everything, securing two seats among the 'Big Model Five Tigers.' Chen Junbo, who left Alibaba's Damo Academy, applied his autonomous driving technology to embodied intelligence, securing a multi-million-yuan order for his first deal. The AI product 'High Beam' launched by Dark Side of the Moon originated from ByteDance's educational hardware capabilities, while Youlu Robotics' developed universal brain Master2000 represents the evolutionary leap of Alibaba's autonomous driving technology towards embodied intelligence.

Retrospecting on the eve of the technological singularity, we observe a shared underlying logic in the entrepreneurial stories of these Chinese and American executives: they emerged during the maturity of the original technological paradigm, precisely capturing market demand fault lines, and benefiting from venture capital's forward-looking deployment.

However, the more fundamental driving force is the persistent exploration of 'possible worlds' by creators restless with the status quo. As Mira Murati emphasized in the X Platform Manifesto, the 'open scientific culture' is a spirit inherited from the early internet's open-source movement but has gained new interpretations in the AI era—when technological evolution surpasses individual organizations' capacities, distributed innovation becomes an inevitable choice.

The wave of executive entrepreneurship in tech that has spanned over half a century is writing an evolutionary theory of digital civilization. It proves that true innovation never remains confined within a single company's walls. When top talent carries the spark of technology into the wilderness, it not only restructures the business landscape but also upgrades the human cognitive system.

From information connectivity to intelligent enhancement, from the digitization of the physical world to the autonomous evolution of machines, the acceleration formed by successive waves of entrepreneurial surges will eventually propel us into a more exciting future—where every pulse of the technological revolution stems from humanity's unceasing instinct to create.

Among them, the collective entrepreneurship of Chinese tech executives is akin to thousands of burning spirit pearls breaking free from the organizational giant wheel's gravitational pull—when engineers wield the algorithm-forged red scarf of chaos, and internet warriors step on the wind and fire wheels condensed by computing power, perhaps one day, they will emerge from the cracks of the digital universe, upholding the golden lotus body of Chinese innovation.